When you were doing four-hour journeys each way, five days a week to get to training and back via multiple buses aged 14, then leave your country and everything you know at 19 to move to Europe alone to make it, it matters when you find belonging, a home, appreciation and understanding.
Mohamed Salah staying at Liverpool, and his unwavering desire to do so, is more than just a professional and football-based decision. He found his place, his people, his purpose. So did his family. That’s peace.
If I had a nickel for every time Will Ferrell played a business executive in the fictionalized “real world” of a movie about a popular toy empire, I would have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.