"Mohamed Salah suffers from a strain in the back muscle of the second degree," Mohamed Abouela, the doctor of the Egyptian national team, told ON Time Sports.
"When the first FA statement [said] that Salah would be out for only two games, we only had one x-ray on Salah, but after the second X-ray, we found it bigger.
"I don't wait for someone to tell me how I work. I'm always doing enough to improve myself and I'm not the one to announce injuries and the timing, but my role is only to treat the players. We have enough potential but in two days we will travel to the poorly equipped city of San Pedro, so we found that his treatment at Liverpool would be better.
"Our agreement with Liverpool was two days ago, and the agreement was to announce the matter after the Cape Verde match, but Jurgen Klopp is the one who announced early (after the 4-0 win at Bournemouth on Sunday), and Salah himself did not want to travel and if he wanted to leave from day one.
"When will Salah return from injury with his treatment at Liverpool? I can't say that because muscle injury depends on how much you get better on a daily basis. But I can say that we worked with Salah for four days well, and the player improved in them as well as possible."
Salah was present at the stadium as Egypt grabbed a draw against Cape Verde and secured a place in the AFCON play-off.
He's not set to return to Merseyside to undergo treatment for his hamstring injury but could return to his national team if they go far enough in the competition — if he recovers sufficiently, of course.
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