Former Liverpool captain Phil Thompson has warned the board not to offer Mohamed Salah just anything in attempts to secure him to a new deal.

Thompson wrote in the Daily Mail: "I'm not in the camp of give Mo Salah what he wants but Liverpool have to find a sensible way of getting him tied down to a new contract.

"It's going to cost around £350,000 a week and I understand the clamour for 'just pay him what he wants' but Liverpool's predicament is his age and setting a precedent ahead of other world class players such as Virgil van Dijk and Sadio Mane.

"They have to be sensible in negotiations. That may mean stacking it with loyalty bonuses to boost his earnings towards the end to reward and encourage sustained levels of performance. They have to be very careful.

"At the moment they can't replace him. To find someone who can provide similar statistics would cost in the region of £100million and that would command £350,000 or £400,000 a week wages.

"He says he wants to stay at Liverpool for life and that worries me sometimes as those statements are usually a precursor to a player running down a contract. We need his agent to come and meet us in the middle.

"Liverpool made him the superstar he is today. He should be rewarded but the deal has to be done with head rather than heart as paying those figures can be damaging for a dressing room and the club if you don't structure things correctly."