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Liverpool Slap 120M Tag On 33-Year-Old Salah — And Nobody's Biting
Reds want nearly three times market value for their 99-rated icon — but the auction hasn't even started and not a single bid has landed
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Sarah
Soccerverse Times' transfer & markets reporter — a Geordie with breaking-news instincts who checks the deal before she shouts it.

120 million SVC. For a 33-year-old. With nee bids on the board.
Liverpool have stuck a price tag on Mohamed Salah Hamed that stops you mid-scroll. The Egyptian — rating 99, the joint-best forward you'll find anywhere — has been listed on the transfer market with a minimum bid of 120.0M SVC. That's the asking price, mind, not a bid. Auction ID 51631 hasn't even started. High bid: none. Not a single club's blinked.
And here's the number that does the talking. Salah's market value sits at 43.0M SVC. The asking price is 2.79 times that. Liverpool aren't selling Salah — they're daring somebody to overpay for him.
The steepest tag on the board
I checked the live auction board, and nothing else comes close. Salah's 120M tops the lot. The next-dearest asking prices are Auxerre's Clément Akpa (24, rating 90) at 110.0M and Bergamo's Berat Djimsiti at 80.0M. After that it drops off a cliff. No one in the game is asking more for a player right now than the Reds are asking for Salah.
But "biggest asking price" and "biggest deal" are two very different things, pet — and I went to the archive to prove it. Plenty of fees have flown past 120M when a deal actually *closed*. The all-time record is Florian Wirtz, who went from Leverkusen to Dortmund for a frankly silly 225.0M SVC back in July 2025. Bayern paid 176.0M in January, Salzburg 173.0M, and Barcelona handed over 150.0M for Viktor Gyökeres. So 120M isn't unheard of — it's just unheard of for a player who turns 34 next summer.
Why the silence?
The numbers explain the standoff. Salah is 33, on two years of contract, and earning 510,420 SVC in wages — canny money to take on. His form line reads 656666 and his morale is "Happy" after shaking off an injury he recovered from 68 days ago. He's a genuine FR/AMR with a 99 shooting rating — proper elite. But at that price, for that age, every manager on the board is doing the same sum I am and arriving at the same answer: not yet.
It doesn't help that a buyer would need deep pockets and a clear-out plan. Even Liverpool themselves are sat on a balance of just 17.0M SVC — a fraction of the 120M they're asking — so this is a "make me an offer I can't refuse" listing, not a fire sale. The club is third in ENG Division 1 under Biarritz, form WLLWWW, with a squad valued north of 480M. They don't *need* to move him.
What to watch
This one's simple. The auction hasn't started, so there's no clock ticking yet — and until somebody lodges that first bid, the 120M is just a statement of intent hanging in the window. Salah's never been sold in his Soccerverse career; his transfer history is a blank page. Whether that page stays blank depends on one brave manager deciding a 99-rated icon is worth nearly three times his sheet value.
From what I'm hearing, nobody's that brave. Yet. But the moment a bid lands on 51631, you'll hear it here first.
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In the tables
ENG Division 1
ENG · Division 0 · Season 3
| # | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | London RedSjow | 38 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 48 | 13 | +35 | 76 |
| 2 | Manchester BluePhesiola | 38 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 39 | 21 | +18 | 69 |
| 3 | Crystal PalaceStrategos | 38 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 48 | 21 | +27 | 68 |
| 4 | LiverpoolBiarritz | 38 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 39 | 20 | +19 | 64 |
| 5 | BrentfordGreenFuryx | 38 | 15 | 16 | 7 | 32 | 18 | +14 | 61 |
| 6 | BrightonJoachim | 38 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 30 | 29 | +1 | 60 |
| 7 | NewcastleGravipod | 38 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 36 | 24 | +12 | 57 |
| 8 | NottinghamBOA | 38 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 43 | 22 | +21 | 56 |
| 9 | EvertonInvincible | 38 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 38 | 25 | +13 | 54 |
| 10 | FulhamAliManager | 38 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 36 | 40 | -4 | 54 |
| 11 | TottenhamTaddy | 38 | 15 | 9 | 14 | 37 | 47 | -10 | 54 |
| 12 | ChelseaArne_Lock | 38 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 39 | 35 | +4 | 52 |
| 13 | BournemouthTheramoe | 38 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 28 | 27 | +1 | 51 |
| 14 | Manchester RedMastermind | 38 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 45 | 50 | -5 | 48 |
| 15 | CoventryRaiden1 | 38 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 23 | 29 | -6 | 48 |
| 16 | LeicesterTedlasso | 38 | 10 | 9 | 19 | 40 | 50 | -10 | 39 |
| 17 | West HamSupernovaOrbit | 38 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 29 | 42 | -13 | 35 |
| 18 | Derbyderby | 38 | 9 | 7 | 22 | 24 | 47 | -23 | 34 |
| 19 | BurnleySabo | 38 | 4 | 13 | 21 | 17 | 55 | -38 | 25 |
| 20 | Lutonapaporcio1 | 38 | 3 | 5 | 30 | 16 | 72 | -56 | 14 |
FRA Division 1
FRA · Division 0 · Season 3
| # | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ParisJanca | 38 | 21 | 13 | 4 | 60 | 18 | +42 | 76 |
| 2 | MarseilleElChapito | 38 | 21 | 11 | 6 | 59 | 21 | +38 | 74 |
| 3 | NiceIyke | 38 | 20 | 14 | 4 | 33 | 12 | +21 | 74 |
| 4 | Lillebalobeast | 38 | 15 | 18 | 5 | 32 | 9 | +23 | 63 |
| 5 | StrasbourgKiran | 38 | 16 | 15 | 7 | 37 | 25 | +12 | 63 |
| 6 | ToulouseLePhesile | 38 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 43 | 24 | +19 | 61 |
| 7 | OrlyTotti | 38 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 36 | 38 | -2 | 57 |
| 8 | LyonKloV2 | 38 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 40 | 39 | +1 | 55 |
| 9 | MonacoSVPiccolo | 38 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 41 | 30 | +11 | 53 |
| 10 | AuxerreLilPimietuk | 38 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 34 | 32 | +2 | 50 |
| 11 | LensHazart | 38 | 11 | 15 | 12 | 47 | 34 | +13 | 48 |
| 12 | BrestFelpa35 | 38 | 14 | 5 | 19 | 34 | 32 | +2 | 47 |
| 13 | AngersSenenZambrano98 | 38 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 34 | 36 | -2 | 47 |
| 14 | Saint-ÈtienneJohnelo | 38 | 9 | 17 | 12 | 23 | 33 | -10 | 44 |
| 15 | ReimsReims | 38 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 29 | 39 | -10 | 40 |
| 16 | MetzNwaloA | 38 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 23 | 36 | -13 | 40 |
| 17 | Le Havrenokey | 38 | 7 | 16 | 15 | 23 | 34 | -11 | 37 |
| 18 | ValenciennesMonsieurRoland1nh0 | 38 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 18 | 36 | -18 | 31 |
| 19 | CaenMateusFRA | 38 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 17 | 56 | -39 | 29 |
| 20 | GrenobleEmma10 | 38 | 3 | 12 | 23 | 11 | 90 | -79 | 21 |
League standings for the clubs in this story.