Jamie Carragher makes Mohamed Salah prediction after Liverpool contract reveal
Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher believes Mohamed Salah will want to play at the highest level until his late 30s and is targeting breaking as many Premier League and club records as he can.
Salah's goal in the 3-0 win over Manchester United meant for the first time in his eight seasons at the club he had found the net in the opening three matches of the campaign.
He does not appear to be troubled by the fact he has yet to receive a renewal offer to extend a contract which is due to expire in the summer and, having set a new Liverpool record of 20-plus goals for seven-successive seasons, his start to the new campaign means he is already well on his way to extending that.
The Egypt international turns 33 next June but Carragher does not believe that will be a barrier to Salah and therefore should not be for Liverpool.
"I'm not sure it will be his last year. I think Mo Salah is a little bit like (Cristiano) Ronaldo," he told The Gary Neville Podcast.
"Most footballers think 35 is the time to finish. I think Mo Salah will be looking at his late 30s and winding down then in his head.
"He will be looking at breaking every record he possibly can, either in the Premier League or Liverpool.
"I think he is aware of his status and I find it very difficult to see Mo Salah in the Saudi League, for instance, next season. He is playing that well at one of the biggest clubs in the world.
"There are a lot of players, wingers or wide forwards who have more medals than him but there will be very few wide players with the quality and numbers of goals.
"You think of Ronaldo at United. I think he is right up there alongside Ronaldo as the best winger we've seen in the Premier League."
Salah piled on the pressure for Liverpool to make a move on his contract after Sunday's Old Trafford win.
"Nobody in the club talked to me yet about contracts so I was just like, 'OK, I play my last season and see at the end of the season'," he told Sky Sports.
