{"id":17551,"date":"2026-07-15T10:25:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17551"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:25:39","slug":"from-egypt-mohamed-salah-has-chelsea-preference-after-leaving-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17551","title":{"rendered":"From Egypt: Mohamed Salah has Chelsea preference after leaving Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_569266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569266\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-569266\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sportwitness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mohamedsalah7.jpg\" alt=\"Mohamed Salah\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.sportwitness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mohamedsalah7.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cdn.sportwitness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mohamedsalah7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.sportwitness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mohamedsalah7-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.sportwitness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mohamedsalah7-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.sportwitness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mohamedsalah7-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cdn.sportwitness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mohamedsalah7-681x454.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-569266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FRANKFURT, GERMANY \u2013 OCTOBER 22, 2025: Mohamed Salah \u2013 UEFA Champions League, match SG Eintracht Frankfurt vs Liverpool FC at Deutsche Bank Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mohamed Salah can surprise everyone and continue in the Premier League by joining Chelsea this summer, following the expiry of his Liverpool contract.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Egypt international first arrived in England when Chelsea signed him from FC Basel in January 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He struggled at Stamford Bridge, managing two goals and three assists from 19 matches. After two loans spells, the Blues sold him to AS Roma in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, the forward returned to the Premier League to join Liverpool and turned himself into a superstar at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Salah, who managed 257 goals and 123 assists from 442 matches for the Reds, is yet to choose a new club since leaving Liverpool.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Chelsea top choice for Salah <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Egyptian journalist Ahmed Darwish, relayed by Al-Horia, has talked about the 34-year-old\u2019s options this summer.<\/p>\n<p>He claims Chelsea are the only English club that could convince Salah to continue in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Any offer from Xabi Alonso\u2019s side would be the \u2018top choice\u2019 for Mohamed Salah, if he were to stay in England. There\u2019s no indication Chelsea have made a move.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Sport Witness relayed news that Al-Hilal have made him their main target and are willing to offer a three-year contract worth \u20ac20m per year.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Liverpool hero attracting Turkey interest <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Ahmed Darwish now claims a move to Saudi Arabia is no longer lucrative enough when compared to other offers.<\/p>\n<p>Galatasaray, Fenerbah\u00e7e and Be\u015fikta\u015f are all fighting to sign Mohamed Salah before the start of the season and all three have made \u2018strong offers\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Over in Italy, Juventus manager Luciano Spalletti has expressed his desire to sign the player.<\/p>\n<p>There are multiple options on the table for Salah and it\u2019s now a case of choosing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 Pep Chavarr\u00eda | Player reaches \u2018full agreement\u2019 to sign for Chelsea \u27a1\ufe0f Wants rapid transfer https:\/\/t.co\/BkXwSGSRI8 #cfc<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sport Witness (@Sport_Witness) July 14, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n        <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKFURT, GERMANY \u2013 OCTOBER 22, 2025: Mohamed Salah \u2013 UEFA Champions League, match SG Eintracht&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}