Egyptian official says Liverpool star will fade away if he opts for the MLS as San Diego FC proprietor welcomes compatriot.
Printed On 30 Mar 2026
Egypt’s nationwide workforce director Ibrahim Hassan has cautioned Mohamed Salah towards transferring to Main League Soccer (MLS) after he leaves Liverpool on the finish of the season, as it might see the ahead fade into obscurity.
Salah, 33, has yet to decide his subsequent transfer after he ends a vastly profitable nine-year spell at Liverpool, the place he gained two Premier League titles and the Champions League.
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MLS Commissioner Don Garber has stated he would like to see Salah within the league, although it’s unclear whether or not any league groups will try and signal him.
“Personally, I would favor him to remain in Europe,” Hassan advised On Sports activities. “I’ve heard about presents from Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), Bayern Munich and golf equipment within the Italian league.
“A transfer to the Main League? He could be far too out of the highlight. You gained’t keep in mind Salah any greater than I keep in mind [Lionel] Messi now, I don’t even attempt to watch him.”
After trophy-laden stints with Barcelona and PSG, Argentina captain Messi joined Inter Miami in 2023, months after lifting the World Cup, and have become the membership’s all-time prime scorer.
Hassan stated the Saudi Professional League could be an appropriate possibility if Salah selected to not keep in Europe.
“If he doesn’t obtain presents from Europe, then a transfer to the Saudi league could be possibility, particularly with large names akin to Cristiano [Ronaldo],” Hassan, twin brother of Egypt coach Hossam Hassan, added.
Nonetheless, San Diego FC’s billionaire proprietor Mohamed Mansour believes his Egyptian compatriot could be an “asset” as hypothesis builds over the Liverpool ahead’s subsequent membership.
If he does transfer to america, current MLS enlargement membership San Diego FC, who reached the playoff semifinals of their debut season final yr, have been closely linked with Salah, not least as a consequence of their British-Egyptian proprietor, Mansour.
“He’s in all probability one of many nice gamers at present. And any workforce that may get him, or any nation that may get him, he will certainly be an asset,” Mansour advised the AFP information company at a summit in Atlanta on Thursday.
Mansour declined to reply whether or not he’s actively making an attempt to recruit Salah or has beforehand sounded out a transfer for the striker.
However he added: “After all, Mo Salah is anyone that, as an Egyptian, my origin, I’m very pleased with. He’s anyone that reached the world stage as one of many nice gamers.”
“And I believe he’ll, if he does determine … wherever he’ll go, he’ll add lots to that league and to that nation and to that workforce for certain. So he’s anyone I’m very pleased with.”
Mansour stated your complete Egypt involves a halt at any time when Salah performs and named the ahead as his favorite footballer of all time.
Whereas effusive in his reward for Salah, Mansour insisted that footballing recruitment choices are left to San Diego FC’s sports activities director and coach.
“I let the folks in cost” determine, he stated.
Salah is at the moment sidelined by damage and can miss Egypt’s ongoing coaching camp as they put together for the World Cup in North America.
Egypt face Spain in a pleasant in Barcelona on Tuesday after a 4-0 win over Saudi Arabia in Jeddah on Friday.
The seven-time African champions are in Group G with Belgium, New Zealand and Iran on the World Cup, which runs from June 11 to July 19.
