Trouble in Egypt
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I went to Mo's facebook page to hear what he had to say but (unsurprisingly) he was speaking in Arabic, so I'll check this guy out..
I'm pretty sure we have some Arabic speakers on here - give us the translations!
*Opens mouth
*Shuts mouth
*Shuts mouth
Mohamed Salah has sought to explain his point of view as the situation with the Egyptian FA becomes more fraught ahead of next month’s international break.
Speaking in a video posted on his Facebook page on Monday evening, Salah detailed his communications with the Egyptian FA and the security requests he has made.“We aren’t asking for anything special,” said Salah. “Just the right to sit at the hotel at peace, without random people annoying us until 4am.”
Salah, via a letter from his agent, reportedly made a list of non-negotiable demands, which included bodyguards outside his room.
“I’m just asking to be comfortable in my room,” he explained. “No people knocking all the time, no people entering my room all the time.”
Salah was pictured with controversial Chechnyan Ramzan Kadyrov while on international duty at the World Cup in Russia.
The 26-year-old was awarded honorary citizenship at a banquet dinner where he was seated next to the man who has been accused of human rights abuses, including torture and the killing of political opponents.
Salah’s agent, Ramy Abbas, has said “enough is enough,” and there is speculation that Salah could withdraw from next month’s AFCON qualifying fixture against Niger – or even retire from international duty entirely.
According to an Egyptian sports journalist, the Egyptian FA have said that Liverpool asked for “details” regarding Salah during the international break and how he will travel to Niger for the game.
It’s said that Salah’s demands, which included no visits from VIP members or events with national team sponsors, will be rejected by the Egyptian authorities.
If indeed those demands for better security are rejected, Salah’s involvement for Egypt in September looks unlikely.
Speaking in a video posted on his Facebook page on Monday evening, Salah detailed his communications with the Egyptian FA and the security requests he has made.“We aren’t asking for anything special,” said Salah. “Just the right to sit at the hotel at peace, without random people annoying us until 4am.”
Salah, via a letter from his agent, reportedly made a list of non-negotiable demands, which included bodyguards outside his room.
“I’m just asking to be comfortable in my room,” he explained. “No people knocking all the time, no people entering my room all the time.”
Salah was pictured with controversial Chechnyan Ramzan Kadyrov while on international duty at the World Cup in Russia.
The 26-year-old was awarded honorary citizenship at a banquet dinner where he was seated next to the man who has been accused of human rights abuses, including torture and the killing of political opponents.
Salah’s agent, Ramy Abbas, has said “enough is enough,” and there is speculation that Salah could withdraw from next month’s AFCON qualifying fixture against Niger – or even retire from international duty entirely.
According to an Egyptian sports journalist, the Egyptian FA have said that Liverpool asked for “details” regarding Salah during the international break and how he will travel to Niger for the game.
It’s said that Salah’s demands, which included no visits from VIP members or events with national team sponsors, will be rejected by the Egyptian authorities.
If indeed those demands for better security are rejected, Salah’s involvement for Egypt in September looks unlikely.
Christ, if talkSport did an interview in Arabic little kippers would be up in arms.
His body language has looked a bit off so far this season, he seems like the kind of guy who really enjoys representing his country so whatever the outcome is I hope its resolved quickly and doesnt become a cloud hanging over him for the season
Cant help but feel this is the sort of episode that a manager like Ferguson would turn to his advantage.
Cant help but feel this is the sort of episode that a manager like Ferguson would turn to his advantage.
It's not a harmless joke at all. They're fucking cunts.
They apparently made similar threats to ensure he made a hefty donation to their moneybox scam thing which kicked all this off when he refused to be the face of asking for public donations for the same scheme.
He should move his family to England & tell them to fuck right off.
Them having him take all those photos with that fucking warlord & then publicise them was the final straw it seems. They're being right fucking cunts & are trying to drag every penny out of him they can.
Well, nobody saw this coming at all.
Yes, he should get his family out of there, pronto.
HA HA - Good idea.
He's an EASY way for them to make a shit load of money though ... so he's their pawn until he fucks them off. I hope his family isn't hurt - it's fucking football.
Can't imagine it'll be an easy thing right now.
He probably should have thought about it before sending the letter
Bring her over for a holiday...
Well it ain't football, it's money and fricking loads of it.
I'm sure there was a pic of Egypt recently and Salah was advertising everything.
They'd be completely stupid to not give into his pretty simple demands but it'll probably be a case of the goose that laid the golden egg.
Cept obv I hope they don't actually kill him
They're not stupid ... I hope.
Yeah, not EU! We need to bring talented people in from around the World, blada,blada, blada.
I think this is the unfortunate price of stardom for people from 3rd world countries – lots of freeloaders, from the government and organized crime to distant relatives, come out from every corner, trying to use whatever points of leverage they could find to extract some money. Even the likes of Messi had to deal with this shit. I think Salah and his family will be OK and the'll find some kind of compromise as these threats are so far of "business" rather than political or personal nature, but for LFC's sake let's hope this doesn't become a major distraction for the player. Last things he should be thinking about 3 days before the game is image rights and threats to his mother.
By the way, here is a recent example of a star athlete being hounded for purely political purposes. That's much more serious and dangerous.
By the way, here is a recent example of a star athlete being hounded for purely political purposes. That's much more serious and dangerous.
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Yah but Kanter was because his father was 'considered' a political rival to Erodgan, and we know how he deals with the opposition.
This isn't about 'interfering' (I don't know if Kanter's father did or didn't) with the govt -
I think you got this backwards – his father was arrested in Turkey because of his son's criticism of Erdogan on Twitter and the son's allegiance to Gulen, not because the father (a university professor) did anything, as far as I know. The really insidious part was that the father was forced to publicly disown his son to try to stay in government's good graces – and they still jailed him as a "terrorist." BTW, this is another bit of context to show how Ozil is really full of shit decrying "racism" in German FA, while supporting Erdogan who does shit like this to ethnically Turkish athletes (like Ozil, Kanter wasn't even born in Turkey).
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