Mohamed Salah's future at Liverpool Football Club is up in the air right now.

On Friday afternoon, reports emerged detailing that the Egyptian superstar had rejected a new contract offer from the club and that talks had broken down.

Salah's main objective is to stay at Liverpool, but transfer guru Fabrizio Romano provided another update on Saturday in which he outlined that the player "definitely turned down" a proposal from the Reds back in December.

While the former Chelsea man will remain professional, which he highlighted against Brighton by scoring a penalty in a 2-0 victory, it's a real shame for the club and fans that things are starting to get a bit messy.

The primary issue with regards to the contract saga is wages, with Salah and his agent Ramy Abbas Issa demanding improved terms in that regard.

According to Spotrac, the free-scoring winger currently earns £200,000-a-week, making him the joint-highest earner at Liverpool along with Virgil van Dijk and Thiago Alcantara.

So you may be asking, what's the big problem then? Well, 13 Premier League players currently earn more than that six-figure sum each week and Salah clearly feels he deserves to be closer to them - which is fair enough when you're the division's best player.

Below, we've provided the footballers operating in the English top-flight right now who're on higher salaries than Salah and there are certainly a few shock names that feature...

The 13 Premier League players who earn more than Salah

Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) - £250,000-a-week

John Stones (Manchester City) - £250,000-a-week

Timo Werner (Chelsea) - £272,000-a-week

Paul Pogba (Manchester United) - £290,000-a-week

N'Golo Kante (Chelsea) - £290,000-a-week

Jack Grealish (Manchester City) - £300,000-a-week

Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) - £300,000-a-week

Romelu Lukaku (Chelsea) - £325,000-a-week

Raphael Varane (Manchester United) - £340,000-a-week

Jadon Sancho (Manchester United) - £350,000-a-week

David de Gea (Manchester United) - £375,000-a-week

Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) - £400,000-a-week

Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) - £510,000-a-week

Unsurprisingly, City, United and Chelsea are the only three clubs to possess multiple players who earn more than Salah.

What's more surprising is some of the names in that bracket. Lukaku, Werner, Sancho, De Gea, Cavani and Stones are all seriously overpaid, while Grealish, Sterling, Pogba and Varane should certainly not be on higher wages than Liverpool's main man.

Kante's salary is more understandable given his importance to Chelsea since his arrival from Leicester and the same can be said about De Bruyne, who's the only player that can lay claim to being better than Salah.

As for Ronaldo, well, he was never going to be on anything less than £500,000-a-week, was he?

That's what happens when you're arguably the most famous athlete on the planet and surely even Salah knows he cannot demand a salary on par with the 37-year-old.

Liverpool simply won't break their wage structure to that degree, even if it means they end up losing their best player in the near future as a result.