Liverpool have no worries with Mohamed Salah after the player backs the club’s decision

Liverpool’s decision to retain Mohamed Salah for the Egypt Olympics campaign was made with the full support of the player himself.

And the club have no qualms about upsetting their star man after the call was made to keep Salah for the rest of the summer program instead of leaving with his national team to compete for a gold medal in France.

The ECHO reported last week how Egypt have become increasingly resigned to not having the talisman with them at the Paris Games and the Reds will now have Salah in their ranks for the entire warm-up period.

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The men’s football tournament begins at the Olympics on July 24, with the final taking place on August 9, just eight days before the Reds open their Premier League season at Ipswich Town and with such a key figure virtually unavailable for the pre-season. it was far from ideal.

Instead, Salah is now one of several first-team stars to turn up for training this weekend at the AXA Center, giving Arne Slot a huge boost as the new head coach plans his first few weeks in the role to succeed Jurgen Klopp. at the beginning of last month.

Egypt had hoped to have their captain as one of three authorized over-23 players for the Games, but it is understood the Egyptian Football Association has not contacted Liverpool directly to make the request.

Instead, there was an acceptance that Salah would not be cleared to represent his nation this summer because the Olympics are not a FIFA-mandated tournament, just as it was three years ago at the Tokyo Olympics. Liverpool were under no obligation to offload a player who has been their top scorer every season since arriving from Roma for £36million in 2017.

Salah’s call to stay with his club this pre-season is understood to have been taken with the blessing of the No.11 himself following consultation and he is keen to get off on the right foot for what is a new era at Anfield under Slot.

With Salah set to play for just his second manager on Merseyside in what will be his eighth campaign with the Reds, the now 32-year-old is determined to remain as influential to the new head coach as he was under Klopp, in -a period. where he scored 211 goals.

That means Salah will be part of the club’s squad flying to the United States later this month for friendlies with Real Betis, Arsenal and Manchester United, and the benefit of the entire pre-season program is seen as a hugely positive development.

It also means the Reds will be able to boast having their most famous star in tow on the lucrative tour of the United States, which begins in Pittsburgh against Betis on July 26, before games against bitter rivals United in Philadelphia on July 31 and Arsenal in Colombia on July 31. August 3.