McManaman says Liverpool must consider Salah sale | OneFootball

Liverpool hero Steve McManaman says the board must consider selling Mohamed Salah.

McManaman says the club cannot be held to ransom over new contract talks with the striker.

"If he wants too much money and Liverpool can't afford it, they'll have to let him go," former Liverpool winger McManaman told sundayword.com.

"If he wants half a million a week, that won't happen at Liverpool, but you would hope he wants something the club can afford and if that's the case, then I'd expect him to stay.

"You can't go ballistic paying wages to try and compete with PSG or Man City because they are in a different world financially.

"Someone else will be up next (for contract talks) and we've seen situations where one player gets a huge pay rise and then the next star player is upset and wants the same. It causes chaos in the team. You have to try and keep lid on it somewhere.

"We have just come out of a pandemic and every big club has lost well over £100million and you can't just go mad like that.

"Yes pay him what he's worth, I have no problem with that. He is a brilliant player, pay him what he's worth. But if he wants double his wages, you can't do that. You have to be sensible, especially in these difficult financial times."