The Mohamed Salah row between Liverpool and Egypt reportedly has a new twist.
Back in January, Salah suffered a hamstring injury during Egypt’s match against Ghana in the Africa Cup of Nations.
The 31-year-old ended up missing nearly a month of action including Liverpool's Carabao Cup final victory over Chelsea and returned against Brentford last month.
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However, Salah has not featured for the Reds since his outing at the Gtech Community Stadium due to an apparent reoccurrence of the injury.
Over the weekend, Liverpool saw a request for Salah to be left out of Egypt’s squad rejected by the Pharaohs.
Their statement said: “We have already received a letter from Liverpool to exempt Mohamed Salah from the upcoming camp due to his injury.
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“We sent the name of Mohamed Salah among the professional players that we are requesting to include in the next camp a few days ago.
“It is our right to include any professional player as long as it is at the time of the international agenda, and the issue of whether or not to include him is in the hands of the national team's technical staff, led by Hossam Hassan.”
Now, as reported by the Daily Mail, the saga has taken another twist.
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According to Ehab El Komy of the Egyptian Football Association, the team have not been able to get in contact with Salah.
He said: “The Egyptian national team, led by Hossam Hassan and Ibrahim Hassan, could not communicate with Mohamed Salah so far.
“There hasn't been any meeting between the technical staff of Egypt and Mohamed Salah yet.”
There have been reports that Salah is set to return to full team training this week, with a view that he could be involved in Liverpool’s Europa League tie against Sparta Prague before this weekend’s huge Premier League clash against Manchester City.
Topics: Mohamed Salah, Liverpool, Egypt, Football
Marcus Chan