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Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham are all watching on eagerly as Liverpool await another offer for star player Mohamed Salah in the coming months. The winger has been subject of much speculation over the summer with Saudi Pro League side Al-Ittihad making a late play to sign him in the window.

The Reds, and Jurgen Klopp, can breath a sigh of relief for now after the Saudi transfer deadline passed but it doesn't change the confidence from the Middle East. Reports suggest that the feeling is Salah will join Al-Ittihad, it is just a case of when it happens.

Having signed for Liverpool in 2017, Salah has gone on to become one of the best players in the league's history, scoring 188 times since his move from Roma for just £35million. Now though, just over one year on from signing a three-year extension at Anfield, his future is in doubt.

Salah will have a little over 12 months left to play on his contract come next summer and at 31 he has maybe one huge contract left. The Saudi interest has come at a time whereby Klopp's men had massively regressed and personally he recorded a joint worst goalscoring season since his arrival - albeit that was still with 19 league strikes.

Now they face a dilemma with Al-Ittihad likely to come back in for Salah in January. They already had a £150million ($187million) bid turned down for him with suggestions that the newly state-backed side would go above £200million ($240million) in order to secure him.

Come 2024 and fellow Public Investment Fund beneficiaries, Al-Ahli and Al-Hilal could also enter the mix and create a genuine bidding war for the Egyptian. For now he remains a Liverpool player with the intention of pushing his team back into the Champions League spots.

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After two goals and two assists to open the season, a key part of Liverpool getting a positive return of 10 points from their opening four games, Salah is already doing his thing once more, a fact that will be a worry to London's top clubs as they compete to break into the top four, and potentially top five, places.

Chelsea, who have been early season strugglers with just four points so far, have already faced Liverpool and Salah, frustrating him after a bright start. At the height of links with him and a move, Salah was substituted early at Stamford Bridge, showing his frustration visibly to Klopp.

Meanwhile Tottenham and Arsenal have both made their intentions clear with a strong opening month. What is clear, though, is that the task of beating Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle and the mid-table strength of Aston Villa and Brighton into the European places gets a lot harder with an in-form Liverpool, and Salah is key to that.

For Klopp it may well prove to be the most important piece of business done - or not done - all summer. "I never had any doubt about his commitment to this club," the German said of his best attacker.

"You can't imagine how much fuss the world has made but how calm we are with it. He is our player and wants to play here. He didn't tell me [he wants to stay] but he didn't have to.

"He speaks with his training and performances and behaviour. We had meetings this week, and the meetings were not about what we did in the past, it was about what we will do in the future.

"Mo was with the players' [leadership] committee and had his moments where he was talking and it was nothing like 'by the way, this is only until next week' or whatever."

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