Al-Ittihad are expected to make another bid for Liverpool's Mohamed Salah before the Saudi transfer window closes on September 7
Having seen Liverpool reject an £150m bid for Mohamed Salah last week, Al-Ittihad are expected to test the Reds’ resolve once again before the Saudi transfer window closes.
Yet with Al-Ittihad making their first bid on the eve of European football’s transfer deadline day, this first pursuit was always destined to end in failure - providing Salah did not force the matter. Now unable to replace the Egyptian until January if they did accept an improved offer, it is not in Liverpool’s interests to sell up at this time.
However, it hasn’t been all roses at Al-Ittihad, who are reigning Saudi Pro League champions but currently sit third in the table, so far this season, with the fortunes of two of their high-profile, big-money foreign players perhaps acting as a warning to the Reds’ Egyptian King. The captaincy was also a source of disagreement between the pair, after Santo initially rejected Benzema’s request to be Al-Ittihad captain - despite it reportedly being agreed as part of his transfer negotiations. With last season’s skipper, Hegazi, not registered after being ruled out for the season with an ACL injury, club legend Romarinho initially wore the armband for the club’s first two games of the Saudi Pro League season despite the Frenchman’s presence in the starting XI.
Even before Al-Ittihad were being linked with a move for Salah, it was being widely reported that they already wanted to offload Jota. Meanwhile, it has since been suggested that he could be sacrificed to make room for the Egyptian if the club were successful in their efforts to sign him from Liverpool.
"Ittihad’s interests come first. I am happy to have Karim Benzema in the centre-forward position, but he lacks playing alongside world-class attacking wingers. But in that way, absolutely not."
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