Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher believes Mohamed Salah's comments last week about a move to Spain was a warning to the Reds board.

Carragher, writing in his column in the Daily Telegraph, believes Salah's comments were simply to sting the Liverpool board into action.

The Liverpool legend wrote: "The timing of the player initiating transfer stories is also strange. My view is it was a message to Liverpool's owners to offer him a lucrative new deal.

"Seeing their players being courted by the La Liga clubs would have concerned Liverpool five years ago. Not now.

"I am not convinced Madrid and Barca can afford Salah. Investing well in excess of £125 million on a player who will turn 29 this summer is not good business."