Chasing Salah by Simon Hughes - ISBN: 9781408721186
Paperback
Unlocking the enigma: Inside the world of football icon Mo Salah.

Chasing Salah

The Biography

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    11 November 2025

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Summary

Despite his consistency, his achievements, and more so, his visibility, he has never written an autobiography, and a biography has never been written about him. He remains an enigmatic figure. We barely know how his teammates really feel about him, and we do not know what he thinks of them. We do not really know about the world around him: how the events of the past decade in Egypt have impacted his own life. We barely know what really motivates him. And we also know very little about where h…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781408721186
ISBN-10:140872118X
Author:Simon Hughes
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Constable
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:11 November 2025
Weight:290g
Dimensions:196mm x 124mm x 28mm
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Critics Review

Not just for fans of Liverpool FC, this biography of the Egyptian superstar Mohamed Salah offers an insight into a player who inhabits two worlds: Europe on one side, and Egypt, Africa and the Middle East on the other * Herald Scotland *
It’s been a stellar year for sports books. Chasing Salah takes some beating’ * Daily Mail *

About The Author

Simon Hughes

Simon Hughes is a Merseyside based football writer with the Athletic, whom he joined from the Independent upon its launch in the United Kingdom in 2019. In 2022, he won the North West football journalist of the year award. He is the author of seven books about Liverpool FC as well as There She Goes, a modern social history of Liverpool as a city. In 2014, his book Red Machine won the Antonio Ghirelli Prize for Italian Soccer Foreign Book of the Year.

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