Some people might think that Mohamed Salah, Liverpool's top scorer, can negotiate with Manchester City, Chelsea, or Manchester United, for example, as he enters the last 6 months of his contract, but this is not true.

Salah's contract with Liverpool expires at the end of the current season, and the two parties have not yet reached an agreement to extend the contract, while the Egyptian striker said that the chance of his departure is greater than his stay with the English Premier League leaders.

Many believed that Salah's comments represented pressure on Liverpool's management, especially with fans of the club raising a banner demanding that the owners quickly submit an offer to retain the services of the brilliant player who is the top scorer in the English Premier League this season.

The Saudi sports channel said a few days ago that Al Hilal made a huge offer amounting to 300 million riyals in order to enter into a two-year contract with Salah, and the player did not score in 3 consecutive matches in all competitions, which prompted some to talk about his being affected by the offer, before he finished. Al-Siyam scored against Lille in France with a wonderful goal during a 2-1 win in the Champions League on Tuesday evening.

FIFA regulations stipulate that any player has the right to enter into negotiations and reach an initial agreement with any club during the last 6 months of his contract, but despite this, Salah or any other player in an English team cannot do that except with clubs. From outside England.

What applies to Salah also applies to his Liverpool teammates Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold, and any player in any English team before the end of his contract

Why can't Salah negotiate?

Although FIFA regulations allow negotiations with any team, the English Football Association regulations do not. Some may believe that FIFA regulations should apply to all federations, and although this is true in theory, any local federation can set different regulations and they are applied by agreement between local clubs only.

Returning to the text of the English Association’s regulations related to offering a new contract to any player whose contract expires, and on page 125 of the regulations file located on the Association’s website and in Articles C69 to C75, it is clear that no player has the right to negotiate with any English team except in the last month. Only one of his nodes

This means that Salah must wait until the first of next June, if he wants to negotiate with any English team.

The Federation’s regulations also stipulate that if Liverpool makes, in this case, an offer to renew Salah’s contract, the Egyptian king must respond in writing, whether with approval or rejection, within 28 days, and if he does not respond, this automatically means that he has rejected the offer.

According to the regulations, by June 1 of each year, unless the FA does not specify a different date, all clubs must notify the FA of all renewal offers made to their players whose contracts expire.

Accordingly, Salah can negotiate with Al Hilal or Paris Saint-Germain, for example, or any non-English team at the present time.