Pundit: Sadio Mane may have quit Liverpool for this reason after £62.4m reveal
Alan Hutton has suggested Mohamed Salah’s wage demands could have played a part in Sadio Mane’s exit from Liverpool.
Speaking exclusively to Football Insider, the former Premier League defender suggested one or two players may be unhappy with the sizeable difference in earnings.
A Liverpool source told this site (2 July) that Salah has become the best-paid player in the club’s history and will earn £400,000-a-week across a three-year deal – a total of £62.4million.
The new deal keeps the forward at Anfield until 2025.
Salah‘s previous agreement had 12 months left to run.
When asked if he thought the difference in wages could upset the dressing room, Hutton told Football Insider: “There might be one or two out there that will be thinking that.
“If you look at the attacking talent that they’ve got, these kind of players might say something.
“The likes of Mane, I know he’s left but that might’ve been a stumbling block – ‘I do the same as Salah so why am I not getting paid the same?’.
“There could be the odd person but from all my experiences, I wasn’t bothered.
“There’s players out there that were earning fortunes and I just saw it in my mind that they deserved it. They were match winners, they scored goals, that is part of football. If they’re doing well I’m doing well so that made me happy.
“So that’s how I kind of looked at it. Most people will, but you will have the odd one or two that will be chapping the door saying well wait a minute.“
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