For a week, Turkish football has been arguing about whether any of this was real.
Club officials issued denials, journalists insisted otherwise, and supporters were left trying to work out which version to believe.
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That ambiguity has now ended, because the story has reached the stage where a genuine number sits on the table.
The background matters.
Besiktas spent most of July courting the player, meeting his camp repeatedly and eventually tabling a package that, on some accounts, would have delivered close to 20 million euros in total earnings.
Sporting director Önder Özen then confirmed the club had stepped away, citing demands over agent commission and image rights that Beşiktaş were unwilling to satisfy.
Their offer was frozen rather than withdrawn, but the momentum was gone.
Trabzonspor moved into that gap, and according to Turkish journalist Yağız Sabuncuoğlu, they have now met Mohamed Salah’s representative and formally delivered their bid: a two year contract worth 17 million euros a year.
Further reporting from Hasan Tüncel fills in the rest of the picture.
Alongside the basic salary, the proposal is said to include bonuses in the region of 4 million to 5 million euros, with Trabzonspor actively seeking sponsorship partners to shoulder a portion of the outlay.
Notably, the structure does not appear to include the shirt sales percentages, hospitality clauses or season ticket revenue shares that reportedly complicated the Beşiktaş negotiations.
Tüncel described the likelihood of completion as having climbed from single figures to roughly 60 per cent within a day, with the club hoping to have matters resolved by the start of the week.
The response from Salah’s side has been encouraging rather than dismissive.
His representative Ramy Abbas is understood to have relayed the details to the player, and reports in Turkey suggest the offer is being viewed favourably.
There has been no rejection.
What follows is a period of consideration, weighed against interest from Saudi Arabia and Major League Soccer, before a decision is communicated.
One note of caution remains.
Trabzonspor president Ertuğrul Doğan has repeatedly and publicly dismissed the entire story, insisting on multiple occasions that Salah is not on the club’s agenda.
Those denials sit awkwardly alongside the current reporting, though official contact has clearly now taken place.
For Liverpool supporters, this is the part of a separation that stings quietly.
Salah left Anfield as a free agent at the end of last season with his place in the club’s history permanently settled, and there was always a sense that his next chapter would be written somewhere loud and lucrative.
The Turkish side, funded partly by sponsors and pitched at 17 million euros a year, was not the destination many had imagined.
Nothing is signed yet.
But the numbers are real, and so is the meeting.
🚨 Trabzonspor, Mohamed Salah’ın Temsilcisi ile görüştü ve resmi teklifini iletti.
• 17 milyon Euro maaş
• 2 yıllık sözleşme pic.twitter.com/TLDH3Gu5DT
— Yağız Sabuncuoğlu (@yagosabuncuoglu) August 1, 2026