Mohamed Salah may have played his final game for Liverpool after hamstring injury

Mohamed Salah is facing the prospect of an abrupt end to his Liverpool career after a hamstring injury against Crystal Palace, with Egypt officials saying he will miss the rest of the season and the club already having confirmed that he will leave at the end of the campaign.

Mohamed Salah may already have played his final match in a Liverpool shirt after being forced off during the Reds’ 3-1 win over Crystal Palace at Anfield on April 25. Liverpool head coach Arne Slot confirmed immediately after the game that the forward had picked up an injury and said the club could only hope he might still be available in the final part of the season.

Since then, the outlook has become much more pessimistic. Egypt national team director Ibrahim Hassan said Salah suffered a hamstring injury and will miss the rest of Liverpool’s season, with the expected recovery period reported at around four weeks. Liverpool have not, at least publicly, issued a more detailed medical bulletin confirming the exact grade of the injury, but the external update has sharply increased fears that the Palace match was his last appearance for the club.

That possibility carries extra emotional weight because Salah’s departure is no longer speculation. Liverpool officially announced on March 24 that the Egyptian forward will leave at the end of the 2025-26 season, bringing to a close a remarkable nine-year chapter at Anfield. In his own farewell message, Salah thanked supporters and said he would always remain one of them, making the risk of an injury-enforced goodbye even more painful for the club and its fans.

If Salah does not return, the Crystal Palace match will stand as the final on-field image of one of Liverpool’s defining modern icons. It would be a cruel ending for a player who leaves as one of the greatest in the club’s history, and it would deny Anfield the chance to give him one last fully planned farewell appearance. For now, the only firm point is that the season has almost certainly ended for him competitively, and any hope of another Liverpool appearance depends on a recovery timeline that looks increasingly unlikely.