With Salah and Firmino signed up, can we now look into giving Mane a new contract?!
I believe Firmino and Salah are considered critical (and therefore untouchable) players for club and system, while Mane (while great) is expendable if the right transfer offer came along. So with three years still left on his contract, there is no need to extend that into his thirties or bump up his 100k pw salary just yet.
Because, for example, if a club like say, Madrid or Barcelona, came in with around a 100 mil offer in the next year, I'd totally see us selling him and replacing him with, say, Malcom and Bailey for 80-90 mil combined to compete for his spot.
But hey, if he has a blinder this year, and he's happy to stay, there's little doubt he'd get an extension then and bumped up to that 150-200k pw zone.
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