Mohamed Salah fearful of returning to Liverpool following Diogo Jota’s death

Players were due back this weekend to begin the preliminaries of pre-season. However, the first tranche of the phased return scheduled for Friday has been postponed.

Liverpool’s Diogo Jota (centre) celebrates with Mohamed Salah after scoring their side’s second goal of the game during the pre-season friendly match at Deepdale Stadium, Preston. Picture date: Monday August 7, 2023.

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah admits he is fearful of what awaits when he returns to the club in the wake of Diogo Jota’s death.

The club, fans and football as a whole are in mourning after the 28-year-old Portugal forward and his brother Andre Silva were killed in a car crash in Spain in the early hours of Thursday.