It’s still a massive stretch to say he deliberately injured him though.
Mo Salah
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It’s still a massive stretch to say he deliberately injured him though.
It was probably just a split-second decision of 'let me hold onto his arm while I'm on it'.
I feel they will risk it for Uruguay. A small shoulder injury would be less of a hamper than most other parts of the body.
That's my feeling, but the problem is I'm pretty sure Uruguay will target him as a weak point too. I don't expect him to play this match.
Fingers crossed. Would be a shame if he missed the WC due to a cnut.
If he misses then we have no chance as Egyptian team to progress to the knockout stage. Hopefully he can start vs Uruguay, he deserves to participate in this WC.
I like the bloke as an individual, comes off as a top bloke. That being said, don't quite understand the outrage for Ramos, it looked to me like Salah held him going down?
Every defender will be shoulder barging him first chance they get.
Jones would feck up his own shoulder and be out for months if he tried that.
I'm not with the conspiracy theorists that think he deliberately tried to injure Salah. I think he did what most of us would do and grabbed hold of him trying to stop him getting to the ball. I've done it to others whilst playing and had it done to me plenty. You don't hear about other incidents like this normally because
a. It's not usually the Champions League final.
b. It's not usually the most important player in the team
c. 99% of the time, both players get up and carry on without an injury
Hopefully he's fully fit for the world cup, has a good tournament and comes back to Liverpool with a massive chip on his shoulder (excuse the pun) ready to fight again next season
a. It's not usually the Champions League final.
b. It's not usually the most important player in the team
c. 99% of the time, both players get up and carry on without an injury
Hopefully he's fully fit for the world cup, has a good tournament and comes back to Liverpool with a massive chip on his shoulder (excuse the pun) ready to fight again next season
To be fair, I doubt Salah knows who he is. He also plays for a country that's guilty of those things.
Of course he doesn't know the guy. Certainly less of an issue than Gundogan and Ozil with Erdogan.
I dont think he was deliberately trying for his shoulder - But I do think he was deliberately going for something that would hurt him in some way, make sure Salah knows every duel will be painful. Same when he runs into Karius. Attritional duels for 90 minutes. That Salah came off injured was just a bonus for him.
Both awful in their own way.
Yeah but if I'm told at amateur level to go in and "make sure the opponent knows I'm there" the first couple of challenges you can bet your house professional defenders do it in their sleep.
Yeah, truly afwul to take a picture with some guy you don't know.
Wait what? Mo Salah or any football player should know any person they take a pic with? They take a pic with fans all the time. For all you know, the fan could be a convicted rapist.
I really doubt that he knows who the guys next to him are but no excuse ... ban him for a couple of years.
The use of football as basically PR for Chechnya and it's criminal leadership to the world is awful. Same as a dictator using football or footballers as PR.
Didn't say a word about Salah, but stay defensive.
It's a thread about Salah, not some obscure Russian gangster. I don't disagree with your first paragraph, obviously.
Doesn't everyone else more so?
Yeah true, I probably should have specified where I was coming from, but I had assumed it was a given due to the tone of the tweet, that ire was directed more at Kadyrov than Salah
"Take a picture with"? He was parading him around a stadium. https://www.rt.com/sport/429356-kadyrov-salah-is-best/
Even an aloof footballer will have heard the condemnation of having the WC in Russia, and should be a bit on guard. At the very least his advisors and the NT people should have stopped it/warned him.
That's weird indeed, yeah. Should not happen, you'd think the Egypt officialshave an idea who (not) to take around but maybe they had little choice being located in Grozny, don't know.
You needn't have specified, was glaringly obvious to me and everyone else that isn't RobinLFC
The teams choose their locations. Egypt chose to be in Grozny. Some teams choose to travel between places and be closer to each game whilst other will have a "home base" and stay there the entire tournament (Iceland do that for example).
Love the new tagline by the way.
Some leaders of the world are bad in the eye of (western) media/people, doesn't mean these leaders are also bad in the eye of other people.
It was Egypt's decision. Probably had something to do with Checnya being a muslim state (especially since it's Ramadan).
Yeah I know it's their own decision to be located there of course, I think I didn't phrase it very well - I meant, when you choose Grozny as your base camp, you're bound to meet that guy sooner or later given his apparent big influence in and around the city. Still, I think they should've been informed about him/his reputation.
There is a chance Salah has already known this guy, but all he heard is good things about the guy. Our source of information is not always the same.
And neither could Salah (about Liverpool) judging by his Instagram post yesterday. We all concluded his tears on Saturday night were due to the possibility his World Cup dream was over but the resident Scousers here were adamant it was because of his love for Liverpool. He didn't even mention Liverpool or the fans in his post, let alone the #YAWN bullshit.
You sound like a County Road Cutter lad.
Good point. It is just a matter of perspective. Some still see Polanski as a hero....
Ramadan is over in a few days
Wonder what the odds are on him aggravating his injury. I'm not convinced he's fully fit, but there's very little that could stop him from taking part in this World Cup.
Basing themselves in Grozny is such weird decision. They'll have a 2,500 km trip to Yekaterinburg and two hour time difference to play their opener, then another two hour shift and 2,000 km trip West to St Petersburg and finally another 1,700km East to Volgograd.
It seems that for some, politics are more important than football.