Al-Ittihad want Mohamed Salah to join Karim Benzema in the Saudi Pro League (Picture: Getty)
Saudi Pro League club Al-Ittihad are ready to make a last-ditch £200m bid to sign Mohamed Salah from Liverpool, according to reports.
Liverpool have already rejected Al-Ittihad’s opening offer for Salah, believed to be worth around £150m in total.
Teams from the Middle Eastern country have been on a spending spree this summer, offering huge wages to players to tempt them into leaving Europe.
Al-Ittihad alone have already brought in former Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema, ex-Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kante and Liverpool’s Fabinho and are now prepared to offer £200m to land Salah, according to the Daily Mail.
They want to bring in Salah ahead of the Premier League’s 11pm summer transfer deadline on Friday – despite the fact the Saudi window does not close until later in September – presumably to give Liverpool time to consider replacements.
But it is thought that the Reds have no desire to let Salah leave, despite the club doing business with several Saudi teams this summer.
Salah only signed a new three-year contract last summer, which made him the highest-paid player in Liverpool history on around £350,000 per week.
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The 31-year-old Egyptian is regarded as one of the best players in the world, registering 187 goals and 81 assists across 308 games for Liverpool.
Salah has won a number of trophies at Anfield including the Champions League, Premier League, FA Cup and Carabao Cup.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has been adamant that Salah will stay at Liverpool and says he is ‘essential’ to ‘all the things we do’.
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Liverpool rejected their first £150m bid.