Roma Regret Selling Salah Below £50M

Roma were able to push Liverpool in a deal for Mohamed Salah to around €50 million, but Monchi concedes that price “could’ve been better”.

Once it became clear that the sought-after forward would be heading for the exits in the summer of 2017, a suitable fee had to be settled upon.

Roma’s director of football Monchi told Sky Sport Italia on the Salah agreement: “At the end of the day, we could reach €50m with bonuses, but at that moment we had to sell and that was an important option.

“The Neymar and Kylian Mbappe transfers changed the market, but at that moment it was necessary that we sell.

“I still think the price could’ve been better for Salah, but it did give us the possibility of making other moves.

“When I arrived, the Liverpool offer for Salah was €32m plus €3m in bonuses. In today’s football, players go wherever they want to."