"There is perhaps nothing in a career as hard as the leaving of it. Unless something utterly remarkable happens, Mohamed Salah has played his last game for Liverpool. Left out of the starting lineup for each of the last three matches, he trained on Monday after his extraordinary post-match tirade following the 3-3 draw with Leeds but he has not been selected for the Champions League against Inter on Tuesday. He may or may not be with the team for Saturday's game at Anfield against Brighton (I don't know if I am going to play or not but I am going to enjoy it, he said). After that, he will be in Morocco for the Africa Cup of Nations with the Egypt national team and the transfer window will have opened by the time the tournament is over."
"Salah is one of Liverpool's all-time greats. He lies behind only Ian Rush and Roger Hunt in their all-time goalscoring charts. Across all clubs, only Alan Shearer, Harry Kane and Wayne Rooney have scored more Premier League goals. He played a key role in two Premier League titles and a Champions League. He's won the Premier League Golden Boot four times and been named player of the year three times by both his fellow players and soccer writers including last year. He's only 33 and there has been no obvious sign yet of him fading with age. This is not the end anybody would have wanted."
Mohamed Salah has been omitted from Liverpool's starting lineup for multiple recent matches and was not selected for the Champions League game against Inter. He trained after a heated post-match reaction to the 3-3 draw with Leeds but remains out of the squad. Salah may or may not feature against Brighton before departing to Morocco for the Africa Cup of Nations with Egypt. The transfer window will open while he is at the tournament. Salah ranks among Liverpool's all-time top scorers, has multiple individual awards and titles, and shows no clear signs of age-related decline.
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