Former Liverpool icon Mohamed Salah nearing next club as agent drops ‘soon’ tease

Away from the club's own transfer activity, Liverpool supporters are intrigued to see where Mohamed Salah ends up.

Back in March 2026, it was announced that the Egyptian Kings's nine-year career at Anfield would come to an end. This came after a very disappointing campaign, in which he scored just 12 goals across all competitions, having bagged 34 the previous year as former head coach Arne Slot guided the Reds to their 20th Premier League title.

Nevertheless, still only 34 years old, there is still plenty of life left in the forward. Salah himself will still be supremely motivated to maintain a high level, with an Africa Cup of Nations to come next summer in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Egypt are record seven-times AFCON winners, but the Pharaohs' most-recent triumph came all the way back in 2010, and it is the one glaring absence from Salah's CV.

Therefore he will want to think carefully before choosing his next club destination. Well, we could be close to finding out where that next destination will be?

What Mohamed Salah's agents have said about his future

"We still do not know where Mohamed will play next season… but we may know very soon."

Ramy Abbas Issa later added "it is not our style to have discussions with clubs that Mohamed wouldn’t want to play for, just for the sake of noise", suggesting that any purported potential landing spots are legitimate and very much on the table. So, where could Salah be heading?

Sporting Kansas City

As reported by Paul Tenorio and Tom Bogert of the Athletic last week, Sporting Kansas City "has emerged as the top suitor" for Salah's signature from within Major League Soccer. They add that a move to the United States remains a "long shot", and that Salah's preference is to remain in Europe; if he does move farther afield, he is more likely to go to the Saudi Pro League than MLS, they add.

Nevertheless, there is concrete interest from "multiple MLS clubs", with SKC the ones pushing the hardest, given that they have an open Designated Player spot, while owner Peter Mallouk, who bought the club earlier this year, is of Egyptian descent. Nevertheless, Salah in Missouri does seems highly-unlikely, so where is he more realistically going to go?

Beşiktaş

If Salah is to remain in European football, the growing sense is that a move to one of İstanbul's big three could be on the cards. On Thursday, Beşiktaş unveiled former Arsenal winger Leandro Trossard in front of a huge crowd at their stadium, nicknamed the Eagle's Nest. Well, during the presentation, supporters started chanting Salah's name, something that President Serdal Adalı seemed quite startled by.

So, is this realistic? Well, the Turkish media certainly think so, but they would, wouldn't they, but would a move to Beşiktaş be attractive for Salah? Well, Turkish clubs can certainly pay top dollar in terms of wages, with major tax breaks for footballers in place at the moment, hence why Galatasaray have been able to attract Leroy Sané, İlkay Gündoğan, Victor Osimhen and others.

Unlike fierce rivals Gala however, Beşiktaş cannot offer Champions League football. In fact, Vincenzo Italiano's team will have to come through three qualifiers just to get into the Europa League, facing Midtjylland over two legs, starting next week. Thus, this does not appear overly likely.

A Saudi Pro League side

Even though it feels less inevitable than before, Salah moving to the Saudi Pro League is still the most-likely outcome. Back in the summer of 2023, when the Saudi project was first getting off the ground, Al-Ittihad had an £150 million rejected by Liverpool, with Al-Qadsiah also interested at the time. From next season, clubs are permitted to have ten foreign players in their squad, but this can be an issue.

By signing Karim Benzema in January, Al-Hilal were left with one to many, which led to them completely freezing out and de-registering former Liverpool forward Darwin Núñez. Thus, one of the big clubs would have to move someone on to make space for Salah. Also, growing political tensions in the Middle East perhaps makes it a less attractive destination for Salah and his family. Meantime, the Saudi Public Investment Fund, who own many of these clubs, have cut back funding on numerous projects in recent months, most notably LIV Golf, due to fluctuating oil revenues.

So, who knows if eye-watering wages would still be on the table. Thus, in summary, despite what Salah's agent has stated, we are seemingly no clearer to learning Salah's next destination. It is certainly interesting that, at this stage anyway, no elite-level European teams are seemingly in the race, perhaps put off by his exponential decline in form last season.

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