Mohamed Salah’s Future: Agent Hints at Upcoming Decision
Mohamed Salah has left Anfield. The goodbye has been said, the tributes written, the clips replayed. What’s missing is the final chapter: where one of Liverpool’s greatest modern forwards will play next.
On Sunday, that answer edged closer.
Ramy Abbas Issa, Salah’s long-time agent and fiercely protective gatekeeper, used social media to signal that the wait is almost over. After weeks of rumour and recycled speculation, his message was short but pointed.
“We still do not know where Mohamed will play next season but we may know very soon,” he wrote, before making one thing crystal clear. “It is not our style to have discussions with clubs that Mohamed wouldn’t want to play for, just for the sake of noise.”
The noise has been deafening since Salah agreed to end his Liverpool contract a year early and walk away on a free transfer after nine years. A modern club icon, gone without a fee, at 32 and still a decisive player. That kind of profile doesn’t just attract interest; it ignites a global scramble.
Al-Hilal, one of the Saudi Pro League’s powerhouses, have been widely viewed as the leading contenders. The financial muscle is obvious, the ambition well established. But they are not alone. MLS sides in the United States have circled, sensing the chance to land a marquee name who moves shirts and needle in equal measure. From Europe, Turkish giants Galatasaray, Fenerbahce and Besiktas have all been linked, each offering their own brand of fervour and spotlight.
For now, none of them have been confirmed. And Abbas is determined to remind the market of that.
His latest intervention continues a pattern. On May 24, just hours after Salah’s 442nd and final appearance for Liverpool, the agent fired his first warning shot at the rumour mill.
“We do not know where Mohamed will play next season,” he posted. “This also means that no one else knows. Beware of the click-w****** attention seekers.”
The message was as much a defence of his client as an attack on those trying to ride the Salah wave for traffic. No hints, no coy teasing. Just a flat dismissal of anyone claiming inside knowledge.
On June 12, Abbas doubled down again, stressing the pair’s preference for privacy at a time when every movement is tracked and dissected.
“Mohamed is doing perfectly fine and neither he nor I prefer to discuss sensitive future plans with people not involved in them,” he wrote. “Both he and I are very private about these things. Yes, people may ask and they may get a standard polite response but that’s about it.”
Taken together, the posts sketch a clear picture. The Salah camp is running this process on its own terms. No public auctions. No staged leaks. No negotiating through the media.
Behind the scenes, though, the stakes are obvious. Salah remains the face of Egyptian football and a defining figure for his national team, who he helped guide to the last 16 at the World Cup. His next club will inherit not just a prolific wide forward, but a global brand and a symbol for a generation of fans from Cairo to Kuala Lumpur.
That is why every word from Abbas lands with such weight. He rarely speaks. When he does, it is deliberate.
This time, the key phrase is simple: “we may know very soon.”
After nine years of goals, trophies and records at Liverpool, Salah stands at the edge of a new chapter. Saudi Arabia’s financial lure, MLS’s growing stage, Turkey’s fevered atmospheres – all remain in play on paper.
The decision, as ever, will be his. And when it comes, it will reshape more than one league’s landscape.
