Mo Salah forced into heartbreaking decision: You've got to feel for him

Mo Salah forced into heartbreaking decision: You've got to feel for him

Mo Salah has suffered a heartbreaking update. You've simply got to feel for the Liverpool star.

Mohamed Salah went off injured for Liverpool against Crystal Palace. It's the rarest of the rare: one of the hallmarks of Salah's time as a Liverpool player is his unbelievable availability.

Only, this has also come at the worst-possible time. Salah only has a few Liverpool games left and a hamstring injury now risks ruling him out of the rest of his Anfield career.

So was Saturday his final match as a Liverpool player? Well, the news from Egypt is that it probably was.

They believe he's done for four weeks, which would just about rule Salah out of the remainder of the season. 'Just about' is the key thing here and the Egyptian might be back for the very last game.

But that's where the heartbreaking decision comes into play. Salah really shouldn't play again this season and in any other campaign there's essentially zero chance that he'd feature.

It's only the fact that he won't want that to have been his goodbye that might get him back on the pitch. But in doing so, he risks aggravating the hamstring problem and putting his World Cup at risk.

So that's Salah's decision. Does he risk his World Cup by playing one final Liverpool match at Anfield for a proper goodbye? Or does he decide never to have his goodbye in order to keep his World Cup safe?

We imagine he'll pick the latter, as devastating as it is.