{"id":1975,"date":"2026-08-05T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asianewscast.com\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2026-08-05T06:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:30:11","slug":"egypts-mohamed-salah-looks-set-to-swap-liverpool-for-turkiyes-trabzonspor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asianewscast.com\/?p=1975","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\u2019s Mohamed Salah looks set to swap Liverpool for Turkiye\u2019s Trabzonspor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rich-share\" data-testid=\"rich-share\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__divider\">\n<div class=\"listen-to-article\"><button class=\"listen-to-article__button\" data-testid=\"listen-to-article-button\"><title>Listen<\/title>Listen (2 mins)<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share__update-reading-list-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"update-reading-list\">\n<p class=\"update-reading-list__button-text\">Save<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share__wrapper\">\n<div 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contributors-list--byline\"><span class=\"contributors-list__by-prefix\">By <\/span>Reuters<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<div class=\"date-simple\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 5 Aug 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">5 Aug 2026<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p>Turkish top-tier side Trabzonspor have said they have begun \u2060transfer negotiations with \u2060Mohamed Salah, with the club chairman adding they hoped to sign the Egyptian forward later this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNegotiations have been launched to transfer professional footballer \u2060Mohamed Salah, who is in a free status, to our club,\u201d the club said in a statement late on Tuesday on Turkiye\u2019s public disclosure platform.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 4 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul 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goals and provided 18 assists, equalling the league record for most goal involvements in a single season and setting the record for a \u206038-game campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He was named Premier League Player of the Season \u2060and won the Golden Boot and the Playmaker Award, becoming the first player to take all three in one campaign.<\/p>\n<p>His output waned last season, with seven goals and seven assists in 27 league matches, and \u2060he was left on the bench in Champions League games, leading to a public spat with Liverpool\u2019s then-manager Arne Slot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container--ads in-article-ads\">\n<div class=\"ads\"><span class=\"ads__title\"> Advertisement <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 34-year-old \u2060started his career in Europe at Swiss side Basel \u2060in 2012 and later joined Chelsea. He also had brief stints at Fiorentina and AS Roma between 2015 and 2017 before joining Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Trabzonspor, generally considered to be the fourth biggest team in Turkiye after \u200cIstanbul sides Fenerbahce, Galatasaray and Besiktas, finished third in the Super Lig last season and will enter the Europa League playoff round.<\/p>\n<p>Salah had been close to joining Istanbul \u200cclub \u200cBesiktas, but the club\u2019s football director, Onder Ozen, said negotiations had stalled over financial and image-rights demands, according to local media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ListenListen (2 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Egypt&#8217;s Mohamed Salah spent nine years at Liverpool [Mohamed Abdel Ghany\/Reuters] By Reuters Published On 5 Aug 20265 Aug 2026 Turkish top-tier side Trabzonspor have said they have begun \u2060transfer negotiations with \u2060Mohamed Salah, with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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