Mohamed Salah granted the wish of millions of Liverpool -fans worldwide on Friday morning when the club revealed that he had signed a new deal.
The Egyptian superstar has torn out the record books since he joins the Reds for a then £ 39 million from the Italian club Roma in 2017.
His first contract with Anfield saw him banking £ 90,000 a week. He is now ready to earn around £ 375,000 every seven days, or almost £ 20 million a year.
Almost eight years after accession, Liverpool became a second home of Salah, who was baptized the 'Egyptian king' by loving fans on Merseyside.
By his side is Vrouw Magi, whom he has known since his childhood and was married in 2013, and their two daughters: Mecca, 10, and Kayan, five.
And it is their complete satisfaction in Liverpool, one of the main reasons why Salah is expanding its historical stay.
While money, job security and ambition have all included in his decision to stay, Salah has made it clear that his family's satisfaction in Liverpool was a big factor.
“They feel at home,” said. 'They were very happy, Magi and the children, they were very happy that we will stay for another two years. It feels like home, so that everyone was happy.
'I think Makka was the happiest in the family, she wanted us to stay. Of course we all wanted to stay, but Makka because her friends are here and the school. It was a very good atmosphere after the moment I drew.
“I enjoy my life here. I enjoy my football. My family also feels at home. We enjoy every moment in the city and every moment in the club. '
He added: 'Of course I am very excited. We now have a great team. Before that we also had a great team. But I signed because I think we have the chance to win other trophies and enjoy my football. '
Salah, 32, Magi met when the few school kids were in the Egyptian village of Basion Gharbia.
His home life is aimed at keeping himself in the best possible form. His house, which is in the same neighborhood as the Erling Haaland of Manchester City, is equipped with two gym rooms and also has cryotherapy facilities and a hyperbaric room.
In the terms of lay people, cryotherapy is the use of machines guided by ice to reduce swelling by limiting blood vessels, while a hyperbaric room has air pressure levels three times higher than normal conditions to help spread the lungs more oxygen around the body.
“I am constantly looking to improve my physical condition,” he once told France football.
'It's true that I like to say that my house looks like a hospital, [but] My wife doesn't like that! [She] Says that I spend more time with my machines than with her! '
Earlier this year he shared a video from his daughter Kayan who worked with him before planting a kiss on his cheek.
Perhaps it is no surprise that Salah seems to be physically better. The owners of Liverpool, Fenway Sports Group, usually does not extend the contracts of players older than 30 because they physically fall. With Salah, that risk is still there, but he has a great limited limited extent.
He is 32, but in the preseason he defeated his co-stars in Liverpool in the fitness test of manager Arne Slot. Gary Neville described him as a 'brick wall' in February.
Salah eats broccoli with almost every meal and other 'superfoods' are often on the menu. He loves the Egyptian national dish Koshary, a mixture of fried rice, pasta, pulses, onions and a tomato sauce.
As a Muslim, Salah has never touched alcohol. During Ramadan it is assumed that he is changing his routine to do a gym session of 2 hours. Fat foods are rare, but it allows a pizza 'Cheat Day'.
In 2020 he let people look in his house in an advertisement with Vodafone, where he poured first daughter Makka in his spacious back garden.
In the video, Salah Makka pursued around the garden before he took her and lifted her in the air.
Another scene shows the Egyptian lounging in a luxurious living room with a sleek, modern style … and a large cat image in front of the fireplace. An image of Makka in her school uniform is the pride of a table.
Every year Salah and his family take the step to place a photo of them around the Christmas tree, something that brings an inevitable recoil, given his Muslim faith.
Last December they posed in matching pajamas for his Christmas mail, smiling in front of their tree and a gingerbread for an Instagram that is swollen to 64.6 million users.
However, his faith is clear in how he plays his football. One of his most common celebrations is the 'sujud', where he bends on his knees, places his forehead on the grass and prays.
“It doesn't kiss the ground,” Salah explained to CNN in 2018. “It is something like praying or, like, thanking God for what I have received. But yes, it's just praying and praying for a victory. I have always done that since I was young everywhere. '
The Salah schedule plays every season for a top club in the European competition.
However, he still finds time for two of his beloved hobbies: chess and yoga.
He once told Sky Sports how he is' addicted 'to chess and plays it every day'.
Salah regularly plays on Chess.com – a website that users can play against others worldwide – and said that he has reached a rating of 1,400, which is quite strong, since many do not surpass 1,000. One day he would like to play the legendary Magnus Carlsen.
A lifelong American supporter said last year that he finally played against Salah on the chess website after he met him on Liverpool's pre-season.
Knowing that Salah is an avid chess fan, he invited him to play after he met him in a Starbucks in Pittsburgh.
Salah won, but he remembered the fan and later invited him to play online again, taking the supporter revenge, as he told the podcast in Blazer's podcast.
His humility and of course talent have always loved him with fans of Liverpool. For a man who has won the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, Carabao Cup (twice), UEFA Super Cup, Fifa Club World Cup and Community Shield, Salah has never come across so boasting. He is also the third top scorer of the club ever.
Armed with two years on his contract, you would be a fool not to support him in order to overthrow more records.
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