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Mohamed Salah's future remains up in the air with the season's end drawing ever closer(Image: CameraSport via Getty Images)

The Liverpool future of Mohamed Salah is still up in the air with his deal set to expire in the summer.

But despite the perhaps worrying silence surrounding his contract negotiations, supporters can take solace.

As it stands, Salah will walk away from Anfield on a free transfer at the end of the season.



That has understandably sparked concern among those affiliated with Liverpool, given that the 32-year-old, the club’s record Premier League goalscorer, has fired them to within touching distance of another league title.

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Since the Egyptian admitted there had been “no progress” regarding his new contract in January, there has very little noise over his or team-mates Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold’s contracts, with the trio all facing the same situation.

Club chiefs have been optimistic for some time about reaching an agreement with Salah as they want him to stay, while he too is happy on Merseyside.

While clubs abroad have been free to negotiate a pre-contract agreement with him since January, any transfer links with those clubs have been swiftly and firmly denied.

It is also claimed Liverpool's Champions League exit and Carabao Cup final defeat won’t have a bearing on what Salah, nor Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold, decide to do.

It's understood that Salah and Van Dijk's No.1 choice is to stay at Anfield.

The Match of the Day presenter suggested that if Salah was close to leaving, he would have been more heavily linked with another club by that point and there would be greater noise surrounding his potential exit.

Salah has repeatedly made his stance on the matter clear(Image: Optus Sport)

Discussing it on his The Rest Is Football podcast, Lineker said: "I've got a feeling he will [sign a new contract]." His confidence was echoed by Alan Shearer, who added when Lineker mentioned the lack of noise around the situation: "It's just too quiet.