Klopp admits Salah conversations over COVID-19 situation

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has revealed that he has had discussions with the club’s talisman, Mohamed Salah about his attendance at his brother’s wedding prior to testing positive for COVID-19.

Salah returned to his homeland for the recent internationals but before Egypt’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, attended his brother’s wedding in Cairo. Salah subsequently tested positive for coronavirus and missed the Pharoah’s matches. 

The Liverpool striker has since been in isolation but returned a third positive test this week. He was to fly back to Merseyside on Friday (November 20), on a special chartered flight that will maintain his isolation.  He will not be available for the Reds encounter with top of the table Leicester on Sunday.
 “Mo (Salah) is coming back today,” detailed Klopp. “He feels well, no symptoms.
“(I’ve) nothing to say in the public about the things I talk to my players about.  “I’ve been in close contact with him. A brother’s wedding is a very special moment.  
“In the summer I was in Germany, a friend moved his birthday party because of me. Fifty people were there and at the last minute I decided not to go.
“My players are incredibly disciplined. They really know about the situation. Sometimes it doesn’t work out like this.
“The rest is between Mo and me – we have done that already. Things are fine.”  

Liverpool will also be without Jordan Henderson and Trent Alexander-Arnold this weekend, although both Fabinho and Thiago Alcantara could return.