Mohamed Salah set to miss start of next season in Liverpool hammer blow

Mohamed Salah may miss the beginning of Liverpool’s 2021/22 season after the ahead was named in Egypt’s preliminary squad for this summer season’s Olympic Video games.

The delayed Olympics, which can happen in Tokyo, will happen between Friday July 23 and Sunday August 8.

With subsequent season set to kick off on August 7, if Salah is named upon for the Pharaohs, he’ll miss pre-season and no less than one Premier League fixture.

Egypt U23 coach Shawky Gharib confirmed that he intends to pick the Reds star as one in every of his overage gamers and can launch talks with Anfield bosses later this month.

“Egypt Below-23s staff’s preliminary squad will likely be led by Mohamed Salah and Mohamed El-Shennawi alongside one other goalkeeper,” he stated on Sunday.

“Salah is presently one of the vital vital gamers on the planet and it’s regular to name him for Egypt’s Olympic squad.

“We’ll begin the official talks with Liverpool after the worldwide break subsequent March.”

Salah is Egypt’s present captain and undoubted star and with 43 strikes on the worldwide stage, he’s closing in on Hossam Hassan’s document of 68 objectives for the nation.

Liverpool will understandably be reluctant to permit the 28-year-old to overlook fixtures, as Jurgen Klopp’s facet plot a path to reclaiming the Premier League crown.

The champions are 19 factors behind leaders Manchester Metropolis, with full focus now on ending within the top-four forward of one other busy summer season on Merseyside.

Salah’s worldwide exploits induced a problem earlier within the marketing campaign, when he examined optimistic for coronavirus in the course of the November worldwide break.

Regardless of that, he’s main the race for the Premier League’s Golden Boot, having netted 17 instances in simply 25 league encounters to this point this season.

Klopp just lately spoke of Salah’s significance to the Liverpool facet, stretching far past his prolific kind in entrance of purpose.

He stated: “It’s not usually that I’ve to reward my very own gamers, which in fact I at all times love to do.

“Mo is just not solely a goalscorer. He’s developed football-wise as properly – and is a really, essential participant for us.

“And hopefully he will likely be that for a really very long time, in fact.”

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