The Liverpool star is angry at being used as 'political capital' by the Egyptian FA and could walk away from international football
So Mohamed Salah’s World Cup is over before it began – but what about his international career?
As Egypt bid farewell to Russia 2018, major doubts have emerged as to their star man’s future with the side.
If that sounds absurd – Salah has only recently turned 26 – then it merely underlines the chaos which has surrounded the Pharaohs’ first World Cup campaign since 1990. What should have been a joyous summer has been anything but.