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Mohamed Salah is making the Premier League title his top priority as his Liverpool contract continues to wind down.
Salah, like teammates Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold, is set to become a free agent at the end of the season.
The Liverpool star has repeatedly outlined his desire to stay at Anfield, but a new contract has yet to be agreed, and Salah continues to refer to this as his “last year” with the club.
That is part of the reason he is so desperate to secure domestic glory, with Liverpool’s only previous title win in the Premier League era marred by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Reds raced away in top spot in 2019-20, but the season was halted before they could clinch the title and restart in empty stadiums.
Speaking ahead of Sunday’s meeting with Manchester United, where a packed and raucous Anfield will roar Liverpool on, Salah explained his reasons for focusing on the Premier League even over this year’s Champions League.
“The first thing on the list was to win the Premier League with Liverpool,” he told Sky Sports.
“In my interviews over the last seven or eight years, I always say the Champions League, but this is the first time I’ve said I really want to win the Premier League with Liverpool.
“Probably because we didn’t celebrate the one we won in the way we wanted and also, coming back here as well, it’s my last year at the club so you want to do something special for the city. That was the thing in my head.
“We waited for that title for about 30 years. So, to win it and that was the pandemic then, we didn’t really have time to celebrate it in the right way. It’s not a thing nice to do, so hopefully we can do it this year.”
Liverpool are six points clear of second-placed Arsenal with a game in hand, and nobody has done more than Salah to put Arne Slott’s team in that position.
He already has 17 goals and 13 assists, both scoring and assisting in eight different games, a Premier League single-season record.
Salah’s uncertain future would provide an obvious excuse for a default, but instead his contract constraints are a motivating factor.
He said: “The thing in my head is if this is the last six months, what do you want to see in the future?
“Do you want to look back and say I was worried or stressed about the contract? Or do you want to say I had an unbelievable season? That’s what’s in my head.
“If I ever feel distracted, I just remind myself that I want to look back and say I had an unbelievable season. That’s what I want to do.”
