Following the failure of Liverpool English club management to reach an agreement with his attacker Mohamed Salah to renew his contract, press reports revealed that the English football club Newcastle United were seeking to include the Egyptian star in the team.

According to the British newspaper Liverpool Echo, Newcastle United's management is moving in all directions to build the team in the coming period, as Eddie Howe, the club's new technical director, continues with Michael Edwards, Liverpool's sports director, to see if he can be drawn to a castle. St. James Park, to become part of the new English team project, along with the hiring of Egyptian star Mohamed Salah and a number of players.

The English website team talk claimed that the new Newcastle administration offered Mohamed Salah a weekly salary of £700,000, the highest weekly salary in the world for a footballer.

The Italian website Calcio Mercato also pointed out that, after the acquisition of Newcastle, the Saudi Investment Fund had drawn up a fictional budget to strengthen the team with big names over the coming period. Mohamed Salah is the club's first target, as Liverpool has been slow to take any positive steps towards resolving the Egyptian "Pharaoh" renewal file and linking his name to the departure as soon as it ends.

Calcio Mercato stated in his report that the deal would not be easy because there was previous interest from Real Madrid, but the report did not reveal further details about Newcastle United's interest.

The report described that Newcastle United's entry into the contract race with Mohamed Salah could be a dramatic coup in the transfer market.