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TV anchor Richard Keys claims he's been told by colleagues that the likeliest path for Mohamed Salah over the next few months is to finish the season at Liverpool before joining a team in the MLS next summer.
Salah has endured a difficult season so far for Liverpool, and a week ago it looked as though the end of his Reds career might have been near after his ill-advised chat with reporters in the Elland Road mixed zone.
However, after being left out of the Liverpool squad that traveled to Inter Milan on Tuesday, Salah was back in the fold for Brighton's visit to Anfield over the weekend.
Salah came on as a first-half substitute and delivered one of his brighter performances of the season, and after the final whistle he stayed out on the field of play for longer than any of his teammates to applaud the thousands of fans who had stayed behind to sing his name.
It did not feel like a final farewell for Salah – whose appearance against Brighton was his last for Liverpool in 2025 due to his involvement in the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations – and Keys claimed that it is likely that the Egyptian will be back at Anfield in the new year.
"I’ll share with you what a lot of my Arabic colleagues are telling me about Salah," Keys said. "The smart money is on a return to the fold post-AFCON, and a move in the summer – to America."
Meanwhile, Jamie Carragher also does not expect Salah to be at Liverpool next term – but is glad that the 33-year-old's Reds career did not end with his controversial comments at Leeds.
Carragher said on Sky Sports that the post-game interaction between Salah and Liverpool's fans was nice, but added that it was not a grand enough farewell for a player of his caliber.
"It was nicer than what we saw at Elland Road," Carragher said of the scenes after the final whistle against Brighton. "But does Mo Salah deserve more than that as a Liverpool player?
"He deserves a guard of honor, he deserves a mosaic in the Kop, he deserves to be able to bring his family, his wife and his kids on the pitch and actually be celebrated for what he's done as a Liverpool player."
Carragher called on Salah to keep his focus on on-field matters for the remainder of the season, before potentially finishing his Liverpool career off in style in 2026.
Carragher said: "Just put your differences with the manager to the side and just think, 'three or four more months at Liverpool. Ok, the worst thing that's going to happen is, OK i get this big send-off; the best thing that could happen is, I'm walking out with my teammates in Budapest in the Champions League final.'
"And if he'd have sat in Saudi Arabia, watching his Liverpool teammates do that, I think he'd really regret it."
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