{"id":456783,"date":"2026-02-08T18:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/456783\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:03:11","slug":"mohamed-salah-says-he-was-very-close-to-player-liverpool-sold-for-10m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/456783\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah says he was very close to player Liverpool sold for \u00a310m"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mohamed Salah has had the pleasure of working with some top-class talent since arriving at Liverpool from AS Roma in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian, along with Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino, played crucial roles in the Reds\u2019 rapid rise in the Jurgen Klopp era.<\/p>\n<p>Klopp has even gone as far as to claim that Liverpool\u2019s former front three were \u2018three of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rousingthekop.com\/2026\/01\/15\/liverpool-made-three-of-the-best-signings-in-the-history-of-football-say-jurgen-klopp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">best signings in the history of football<\/a>\u2018.<\/p>\n<p>          Who REALLY got the better deal here? Liverpool or City? <\/p>\n<p class=\"grv-talking-point__subtitle\">Should we have signed Cherki instead? \ud83d\ude2c<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RTK-transfer-value--819x1024.png\" alt=\"Florian Wirtz applauds fans after Liverpool's UEFA Champions League victory over Eintracht Frankfurt at Deutsche Bank Park (Credit: Getty Images\/Christian Kaspar-Bartke).&#10;Rayan Cherki celebrates after scoring for Manchester City during their Premier League match at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (Credit: Getty Images\/Rob Newell - CameraSport).\" class=\"wp-image-283107\" \/>Photo Credit: Getty Images\/Christian Kaspar-Bartke\/Rob Newell \u2013 CaemeraSport       <\/p>\n<p>While honing their craft at Anfield, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rousingthekop.com\/tag\/mohamed-salah\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salah<\/a> and Mane notched a joint-goal participation of 37 (the most the winger has with any player in his career), while Mane and the now 33-year-old combined 35 times.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite the obvious connection the trio had on the pitch, Salah has recently stated he was very close to another former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rousingthekop.com\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> man.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Salah was very close to Dejan Lovren<\/p>\n<p>Conor Bradley and the Reds forward sat down to answer quickfire questions in a video posted by Liverpool on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@liverpoolfc\/video\/7604078224783576342?_r=1&amp;_t=ZN-93irZ2NJJ3u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">TikTok<\/a>\u00a0in association with AXA.<\/p>\n<p>Within the interview, Bradley said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rousingthekop.com\/2026\/02\/07\/conor-bradley-says-34m-liverpool-player-is-the-first-person-in-at-training-every-single-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salah is the first person in training<\/a> every single day.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the duo were asked to name their \u2018first laughs\u2019 as Liverpool players.<\/p>\n<p>Bradley picked Andy Robertson, while Salah named centre-back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rousingthekop.com\/tag\/dejan-lovren\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dejan Lovren<\/a>, saying he was very close to the Croatian.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cMine would be Dejan [Lovren] for sure. Since I came, me and Dejan have become very close. So, I think it would be Dejan involved in that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>          Rate Mohamed Salah\u2019s form since his return from AFCON <\/p>\n<p class=\"grv-talking-point__subtitle\">Should Liverpool rethink selling him this summer?<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/rtk-51-819x1024.png\" alt=\"Mohamed Salah scores a free-kick during Liverpool's UEFA Champions League match against Qarabag at Anfield (Credit: Getty Images\/Ed Sykes\/Sportsphoto\/Allstar).&#10;\" class=\"wp-image-281865\" \/>Photo Credit: Getty Images\/Ed Sykes\/Sportsphoto\/Allstar       What does Dejan Lovren do now?<\/p>\n<p>Lovren moved to Merseyside in the summer of 2014 after impressing with Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>The stopper made 185 appearances in all competitions for Liverpool, scoring eight and assisting five.<\/p>\n<p>He eventually left Anfield in July 2020, securing a move to Zenit St Petersburg for a fee of \u00a310.9m [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/53556646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">BBC<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>After three years with the Russian outfit, Lovren joined Lyon, where he spent just one season.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old moved to Greek side PAOK Thessaloniki on a free transfer in 2024 and remains on their books to this day.<\/p>\n<p>However, his stint with PAOK has so far been hampered by injury issues, which have limited him to 22 appearances, 13 of which have come in the current campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Join Our Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Receive a digest of our best Liverpool content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n<p>   <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah has had the pleasure of working with some top-class talent since arriving at Liverpool from AS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[213458,29564,403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-456783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-dejan-lovren","9":"tag-mohamed-salah","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}