Mohamed Salah is in legal trouble

Mohamed Salah, the captain of the Egyptian national team and player for Trabzonspor in Turkey, has been summoned to a court hearing in Egypt on September 6th, in connection with a lawsuit concerning unpaid legal fees. According to Egyptian reports, the 14th Civil Circuit of the New Cairo Primary Court has set the date for the hearing, requiring Salah's personal appearance to take a "decisive oath" in the case filed against him by lawyer Amr Faragallah Morsi Abdel-Tawab. The case relates to legal and administrative work that the lawyer claims to have performed on Salah's behalf, based on a general power of attorney issued by the player on July 20, 2012. The oath, as prescribed by the court, requires Salah to deny that the lawyer performed these tasks and to deny any outstanding payments owed to him. Legal proceedings indicate that Salah's failure to appear to take the oath, or his refusal to do so, could be considered a breach of oath, with all the legal consequences that entails. The timing of the meeting coincided with Salah's commitment, according to Trabzonspor's schedule, to a match against Gençlerbirliği in the Turkish League on September 6, which raises questions about how he will deal with the conflict of the two dates, especially after his recent transfer to the Turkish club in a big deal.