Mo Salah

[Scratch]

If Mo is out for 21-28 days, then that’s his tournament over, so it doesn’t matter anymore how far Egypt get. The final of AFCON is in 20 days.

Mo strikes me as one of Nature's 'quick healers', so for a normal person it's a month out, but Mo will be back in training within a fortnight.

[Pablo]

The older you get, the slower you heal. He's not in his 20s anymore, so I can't see him coming back to the AFCON (Egypt are not great anyway, so don't look likely to make the latter stages.). Mo is a different beast though, so who knows!

He looks certain now to miss the Arsenal game though which is a big loss. I had an eye on him being available for that one.

After that we have an easy-ish run up until the City game on March 9th. So long as he's back before then, then all good I guess. It's been ages since he's been injured so we shouldn't rush him. We need him fit for the run in to stand any chance.

[Exiled_red]

Egypt got through their group with 3 draws so it doesn't look like they are in great form at least on paper (I haven't watched any games so can't comment more). That said they have got to the final in 2 or the last 3 tournaments so they must have a decent side and aren't just relying on Salah.

If he is out for at least 21 days and the final is in 20 he's not going to go back even if they make the final unless his recovery is ahead of schedule. Also him being back with our medical staff also means that he is less likely to be pressured into playing when he's not ready.

[DerKrampus]

He looks certain now to miss the Arsenal game though which is a big loss. I had an eye on him being available for that one.

In some ways I'm more looking forward to this and Arsenal less so - they'd have planned for Salah whereas now they have to contend with Nunez, Jota and Diaz.

[spud_gun]

Egypts chances of progressing deep must be fairly poor without Salah?

They've qualified for the next round.

Pretty wild set of results in the last round of group games.

Ghana lost two goals in injury time to draw 2-2. Had Ghana won then Egypt would have been out
Egypt scored and then conceded in injury time to also draw their game with Cape Verde 2-2

Egypt qualified from the group with 3 draws

[John Barnes]

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has a "proper tear in his hamstring", says assistant manager Pep Lijnders.

Salah, 31, was replaced during Egypt's 2-2 draw with Ghana in the Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast on Thursday.

He watched from the stands as Egypt reached the last 16 thanks to a dramatic 2-2 draw with Cape Verde on Monday.

"It's expected [he will] return in three to four weeks if everything goes smooth," said Lijnders.

"It will go smooth and it will go right because of how we've treated his body before."

Liverpool said Salah will return to the club on Wednesday for an "intensive rehabilitation programme".

They said his injury was "worse than first feared", but he will be treated with a "view to being back in action as soon as possible for club and country, giving him the best chance to return to compete at Afcon"

[Buzzo]

Yeah sounds like there is no chance he is playing again in the Afcon by the sounds of things.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Hopefully not.


The main worry for us is that a 3 or 4 week injury does not turn out to be a 2 or 3 month one.

The one positive we have right now is that if it looks like being the latter we have a couple weeks to potentially look at moving for a summer target if we had an attacker amongst those targets.

[danperkins]

Maybe by some miracle our physios might actually get one of our players back to fitness in a shorter space of time than initially thought & not extend it by 3 months as per usual.

[Buzzo]

How long until Salah is back?

[ronanm]

How long until Salah is back?

It's already over

[Buzzo]

How long until Salah is fit to play?

[Mark79]

When the extent of the injury was confirmed he was given 21-28 days, assuming no setbacks.

So that would have him back for Burnley on Saturday, or Brentford the week after.
Our next 2 games.

[Buzzo]

So we should get some news this week hopefully.

We also should start to have a lot of options in midfield and attack.

[Buzzo]

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