Mohamed Salah Warned By Egypt Team Director That Mls Move Would Diminish Spotlight

Egypt’s nationalist squad head Ibrahim Hassan has cautioned Mohamed Salah against moving to Major League Soccer aft he leaves Liverpool astatine nan extremity of nan season arsenic it would spot nan guardant slice into obscurity.

Salah, 33, has yet to publically denote his adjacent move aft he ends a hugely successful nine-year spell astatine Liverpool, wherever he won 2 Premier League titles and nan Champions League. The MLS commissioner, Don Garber, has said he would emotion to spot Salah successful nan league, though it is unclear whether immoderate MLS teams will effort to motion him.

“Personally, I would for illustration him to enactment successful Europe,” Hassan told On Sport. “I person heard astir offers from Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich and clubs successful nan Italian league.

“A move to MLS? He would beryllium acold excessively retired of nan spotlight. You won’t retrieve Salah immoderate much than I retrieve [Lionel] Messi now; I don’t moreover effort to watch him.”

After trophy-laden stints pinch Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, nan Argentina skipper Messi joined Inter Miami successful 2023, months aft lifting nan World Cup, and became nan club’s all-time apical scorer.

Hassan said nan Saudi Pro League would beryllium a suitable action if Salah chose not to enactment successful Europe. “If he does not person offers from Europe, past a move to nan Saudi league would beryllium a bully option, particularly pinch large names specified arsenic Cristiano [Ronaldo]”, Hassan, who is nan copy relative of Egypt’s caput coach, Hossam Hassan, said.

Salah is presently sidelined by wounded and is distant from Egypt’s ongoing training campy arsenic they hole for nan World Cup successful North America. Egypt look Spain successful a friends successful Barcelona connected Tuesday aft a 4-0 triumph complete Saudi Arabia successful Jeddah connected Friday.

The seven-times African champions are successful Group G pinch Belgium, New Zealand and Iran astatine nan World Cup, which runs from 11 June to 19 July.