No tools at Melwood this morning as if pulled out. Mohamed Salah – who always kept his cool even in life-and-death matches – was devastated when he received the bad news: Karim El-Sayed, his closest assistant in this fictional story, lived off 4.3 million pounds and then quietly fled England.
Karim, as described in the story, is the person Salah once called “a second brother”: the one who arranged all the trips, managed the schedule, took care of every little detail for Salah’s family. They were so close that teammates often joked: “Where there is Salah, there is Karim.”
However, everything calmed down when Karim was temporarily detained at Heathrow Airport. In his case, the police found a number of key documents that were chosen as evidence of a technique that lasted for years, benefiting Salah’s fantastic imagination, gradually shifting assets to private accounts.
A source in the story described that when Salah heard the news, he bowed his head, covered his face with his hands, and was speechless. A Liverpool member recounted:
“He was a little bit stunned at that moment. For Salah, Karim was not an employee – he was family.”
What was more shocking was Karim’s initial testimony: he said he had been preparing this plan for three years, taking advantage of the time in contracts and personal expenses that no one noticed.
Liverpool was shaken. The players were deeply shocked. And Salah – in this dramatic story – was reflecting on the deepest betrayal of his life.