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A bizarre club-versus-country row between Liverpool and Egypt over Mohamed Salah’s fitness looks set to escalate further, with national team staff in Cairo suggesting they have been unable to communicate with the injured forward.
Liverpool wrote directly to Egypt at the end of last week asking the national team to exempt their star man and captain from an upcoming camp in Abu Dhabi, where the Pharaohs are set to face New Zealand in a friendly tournament.
Egypt rejected that request and called up the player, insisting it was their right to assess Salah’s fitness themselves. The forward has played just once for Liverpool since sustaining an injury in the Africa Cup of Nations group stage.
National chiefs wanted Egyptian doctor Mohamed Abu El-Ela to run his own assessment of Salah before making any decisions on his involvement in the upcoming international camp and said that they would ‘adhere to his inclusion’ if he played any minutes for Liverpool before then.
Egypt rejected Liverpool’s request and included Salah in the squad anyway, effectively saying they would make their own mind up on his fitness. However, a member of the Egyptian FA
