Mohamed Salah could be crowned the UEFA Player of the Year at this evening’s Champions League group-stage draw.
Should Salah see off Luka Modric and holder Cristiano Ronaldo to claim the crown, it would continue the Liverpool superstar's remarkable ascent.
However, in the build up to the ceremony in Monaco, Salah has been embroiled in a war of words with the Egyptian FA.
The dispute goes back further than this week – to before, and particularly during, this summer’s World Cup in Russia.
After Egypt crashed out of the competition in ignominious fashion, we spoke to Ahmad Yousef for a special podcast to get the lowdown on a dispute that continues to rage on.
Ahmad is an Egyptian football expert, and the editor at KingFut.com, who has followed the story closely, and in the podcast he tells a tale of bad luck, politics, poor planning, poor organisation and poor management.
And from listening to it, it becomes clear that Salah was let down by the powers that be, and you cannot help but feel desperately disappointed for him.
The podcast was published exclusively on the LFC ECHO app on June 1, 2018, but you can now listen to it here, too. It remains an insightful listen and goes some way to explaining Salah’s continuing unhappiness with the people that run the Egyptian game. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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