Liverpool star Mohamed Salah testing positive for Covid-19 while on international duty with Egypt has added to the Premier League champions’ ongoing troubles, with the Reds having already lost quite a few key players to injuries in recent weeks. Salah is not the only prominent footballer to be sidelined by the coronavirus of course. There has been a spate of positive Covid-19 results since football resumed across the world and it is expected that this virus-hit season will see many more players missing games.
Take Manchester United left-back Alex Telles’s case for instance. The newly-signed Brazilian was found Covid positive last month, then returned a negative test result before he linked up with his national team during the international break. There, he tested positive again on Sunday. United wouldn’t normally have been too worried with Telles’s absence. They…