• Former Chelsea winger
signs ‘long-term’ contract
• ‘I really want to win something for this club’
Liverpool have completed the
£36.9m signing of Mohamed Salah from Roma. The 25-year-old has been a long-term
target, with Liverpool missing out on his signature three years ago when he joined Chelsea before
embarking on an underwhelming spell in the Premier League.
However,
after impressing in Serie A with 29 goals in 65 appearances for Roma, the Liverpool manager
Jürgen Klopp believes the winger has developed a more rounded game and will add
depth to a squad which will be further tested this season with the challenge of
a Champions League campaign.
Speaking
to Liverpoolfc.com, Salah said: “I’m very excited
to be here. I’m very happy. I will give 100% and give everything for the club.
I really want to win something for this club.
“We
have a great team and very good players. I was watching the games last year and
everyone was giving 100% to win something. Everyone can see the coach gives
everything. I hope to see that together we can give everything to win something
for the club, for the supporters and for us.”
The
fee, which could rise to £43.9m with add-ons according to Roma, is a record
transfer fee for the club, eclipsing the £35m spent on Andy Carroll from Newcastle United in January 2011.
Klopp
has already signed England’s Under-20 World Cup winner Dominic Solankeafter
his contract expired with Chelsea, with a fee likely to be decided by a
tribunal, but the plan is for him to start in the Under-23s side.
While
Salah will be the second arrival of the summer at Anfield there are a number of
players surplus to requirements and Liverpool have already turned down an £11m
bid for the out-of-favour left-back Alberto Moreno from Napoli. The Italian
side are expected to return with an improved offer but face competition from
two Premier League clubs and his former club Sevilla.
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