{"id":211243,"date":"2025-12-02T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/211243\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:00:15","slug":"mo-salah-afcon-departure-date-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/211243\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Salah AFCON Departure Date Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mohamed Salah<\/a> will depart Liverpool following the clash with Brighton<\/a> on December 13, with Arne Slot<\/a> explaining the club\u2019s plan around the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/b><\/p>\n

FIFA have ruled that clubs must release their players for AFCON by December 15<\/b> at the latest, allaying concerns of an early release for Salah.<\/p>\n

That means the Egypt captain will play for Liverpool at home to Brighton<\/a> on December 13 before flying out to join his national team in Morocco.<\/p>\n

Speaking in his pre-Sunderland<\/a> press conference on Tuesday, Slot said: \u201cThere are always talks about what is best for all three of us.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the way we\u2019ve worked at this club and I\u2019ve worked in the past is always that there is a communication between all three: the player, the club and the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo that\u2019s nothing new. That\u2019s always the same, also when they come back, when they go.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think FIFA have said the 15th is the last date, I assume, a player has to be released.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salah\u2019s AFCON schedule<\/p>\n

\"Mohamed<\/p>\n

\u2022 December 13:<\/b> Liverpool vs. Brighton<\/a>
\u2022 December 15:<\/b> Join up with Egypt squad
\u2022 December 22:<\/b> Egypt vs. Zimbabwe
\u2022 December 26:<\/b> Egypt vs. South Africa
\u2022 December 29:<\/b> Angola vs. Egypt
\u2022 January 3\/4\/5:<\/b> Round of 16
\u2022 January 9\/10:<\/b> Quarter-finals
\u2022 January 14:<\/b> Semi-finals
\u2022 January 17:<\/b> Third-placed playoff
\u2022 January 18:<\/b> Final
\u2022\u00a0January 21:<\/b> Marseille vs. Liverpool\n<\/p>\n

That may suggest a hope that Egypt will bear Liverpool in mind when it comes to their plans around the tournament, though Salah\u2019s management will be out of the club\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

Slot effectively trialled his system for throughout AFCON in Sunday\u2019s 2-0 win over West Ham<\/a>, with Salah spending the afternoon on the bench as Dominik Szoboszlai<\/a> played on the right wing.<\/p>\n

How Salah reacted to being dropped vs. West Ham<\/p>\n

\"LONDON,<\/p>\n

It proved a success to the extent that there are genuine questions over whether Liverpool\u2019s No. 11 should come back into the side against Sunderland<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

But there are no concerns from Slot over frustration from Salah himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a normal reaction from a player that\u2019s good enough to play for us \u2013 and I say that mildly, because he\u2019s been so outstanding for this club for so many years, and will be for us in the future,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo yeah, of course a player isn\u2019t happy not playing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wasn\u2019t the only one who wasn\u2019t happy that he wasn\u2019t starting, I can tell you \u2013 and that\u2019s normal.<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the way he behaved was as you expect from the professional he is, he was very supportive of his teammates, handled himself very well during the day and yesterday in the session as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you cannot be a player that\u2019s available every three days and play on that high a standard if you go with your emotions.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut for Mo, he\u2019s so disciplined, knows what he needs to do to stay fit and no matter if he plays well, doesn\u2019t play well, if he plays or if he doesn\u2019t play, he will always be that top professional.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s what he was in the last two days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah will depart Liverpool following the clash with Brighton on December 13, with Arne Slot explaining the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[115533,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,9895,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-211243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-afcon","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-mohamed-salah","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115649631024812954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}