With the Olympics fast approaching there will be a lot of Professional footballers that will like to play for their country at this summers games. Unfortunately for Mohammad Salah he won’t be one of them as his club Liverpool have shot down the idea of it, that’s according to Egypt boss Gharib

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“I tried many, many times with Liverpool, as did the Egypt FA, but they refused completely,” he said, as cited by Anfield watch.

“Mohamed wanted to play the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. He talked with me, I did my best to bring him. Salah was a key player in my Olympic plans. But the club refused – we need to move on.”

Egypt FA President Ahmed Megahed added: “We started talking with them a long time ago because Salah wanted to play the Olympic Games, but Liverpool were unclear. I knew in June they would not let him go. Anyway we respect their decision.”