{"id":429777,"date":"2026-02-17T04:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429777\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T04:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:04:10","slug":"tim-sherwood-claims-mo-salah-will-100-leave-liverpool-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429777\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Sherwood claims Mo Salah will &#8216;100%&#8217; leave Liverpool this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Sports pundit Tim Sherwood is \u2018100%\u2019 convinced that there\u2019ll be a big-name departure from Liverpool in the next three or four months.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation has surrounded several members of Arne Slot\u2019s squad throughout a turbulent season, including Mo Salah, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireofthekop.com\/2025\/12\/08\/carragher-slams-salah-comments-disgrace\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">infamously declared in December<\/a> that his relationship with the head coach had broken down and suggested that he\u2019d been scapegoated for the team\u2019s troubles.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the winger has been fully reintegrated into the squad since returning from the Africa Cup of Nations and has been in improved form for the Reds over the past month, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/mohamed-salah\/leistungsdaten\/spieler\/148455\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two goals and four assists<\/a> in that time.<\/p>\n<p>Sherwood: Salah will \u2018100%\u2019 leave Liverpool this year<\/p>\n<p>Despite that minor resurgence and the fact that the 33-year-old\u2019s contract runs to June 2027, Sherwood firmly believes that Liverpool\u2019s third-highest goalscorer of all time is already in his final season at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on\u00a0Fan Club for <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/2023361495476633767\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sky Sports News<\/a>, the pundit declared:\u00a0\u201cWe have to thank Mo Salah for the time he has given to the Premier League. In an era where there\u2019s not a great deal of world-class players, he\u2019s certainly been one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my opinion, I think he 100% leaves that club and he gets a fantastic ovation at the end of the season, whether that\u2019s with a bit of silverware or not. He deserves silverware, he certainly does, but whatever happens, he\u2019s been a magnificent servant to the club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/salah-gesturing.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-284232 has-webp\" alt=\"Tim Sherwood believes that Mo Salah will leave Liverpool at the end of this season\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:3789\/2575;max-width:2048px\"\/>(Photo by Justin Setterfield\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this isn\u2019t Salah\u2019s final season at Liverpool<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not unthinkable that, should Liverpool receive a big-money transfer offer for Salah in the coming months, they might opt for pragmatism over romanticism and accept a lucrative approach from overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Objectively, there\u2019s a logical argument for cashing in on a player who\u2019ll turn 34 in June and who\u2019s the highest earner in the squad on \u00a3400,000 per week (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capology.com\/club\/liverpool\/salaries\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Capology<\/a>). As we know, however, the emotional investment of football makes it an untypical industry from a business sense.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the Egyptian is on course for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/mohamed-salah\/leistungsdatendetails\/spieler\/148455\/verein\/31\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by far his least productive season at Anfield<\/a>, the thought of saying farewell to him in just three months\u2019 time when no announcement to that effect has yet been made would be agonising to contemplate.<\/p>\n<p>It might\u2019ve felt like Salah was on borrowed time in December after his outburst at Elland Road, but his performances since returning from AFCON have been those of someone who remains fully committed to the cause and is very much playing for his head coach, his club and their supporters.<\/p>\n<p>His work rate out of possession \u2013 an aspect for which he\u2019s been criticised in the past \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireofthekop.com\/2026\/02\/16\/alan-shearer-has-noticed-something-about-salah-in-recent-games-that-slot-also-highlighted\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been praised in recent games<\/a>, and his display against Brighton on Saturday suggested that he could be increasingly influential in the final third of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope that Sherwood\u2019s prediction turns out to be misguided!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky Sports pundit Tim Sherwood is \u2018100%\u2019 convinced that there\u2019ll be a big-name departure from Liverpool in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-429777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}