Dejan Lovren tips Mo Salah to stay at Liverpool for “four, five, six years” – Liverpool FC

Dejan Lovren has backed his shut pal Mohamed Salah to stick with Liverpool for the long run, although he burdened “the love must be from each methods” for it to occur.

Lovren and Salah developed a good bond throughout their time collectively on Merseyside, and stay shut regardless of the centre-back having left to affix Zenit St Petersburg.

Now captain of the Russian facet, Lovren is ready to watch from afar as his former facet push on within the Premier League and Champions League, sarcastically with a collection of issues on the coronary heart of the defence.

Up entrance, Salah has remained in imperious kind, with 22 objectives and 4 assists in 32 video games this season, main the Golden Boot race within the league with 16 objectives, at the very least three away from another participant.

There stay query marks over his future with Liverpool, nevertheless, significantly following a questionable interview with AS in December through which he lauded Actual Madrid and Barcelona as “high golf equipment” and stated “we by no means know what will occur.”

Salah has, nevertheless, reiterated his dedication to the Reds on quite a few events, with the message being that “it’s within the fingers of the membership” – which has now been repeated by Lovren.

“I feel it must be from each methods, the love,” Lovren advised talkSPORT, when requested if Salah may finish his profession at Anfield.

“Like I see it now, they’ve it. So why not?

“Mo is in one of the best age of his soccer profession, he’s 28. Possibly he appears slightly bit older! However he’s within the peak of his kind, so why not keep one other 4, 5, six years?”

Lovren stated that he and Salah “discuss all the pieces,” and that the No. 11 stays as dedicated as ever to the trigger on Merseyside, with the Croatian praising his former team-mate’s particular person kind this season.

“In fact [he is committed]. Not only for Liverpool, he’s for all of the followers round, his supporters and for himself,” he continued.

“He’s his largest critic when he doesn’t do properly.

“I’m not stunned that he’s doing fairly properly individually. Possibly not within the workforce efficiency, however individually while you take a look at what number of objectives he’s scored, he’s doing superb in the mean time.”

As Lovren factors out, Salah is presently in his peak age as a Premier League ahead, although the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Zlatan Ibrahimovic are proof that requirements can nonetheless be maintained right into a participant’s mid-30s.

He’s additionally tied to Liverpool till 2023, which places each the participant and his membership in a robust place – although it could possibly be that this summer time, with two years left on his deal, an enormous resolution will likely be made.