Dejan Lovren has said he is confident Mohamed Salah will be fit for the World Cup after the forward played through the pain barrier a number of times for Liverpool last season.
On Monday, Salah was named in Egypt's squad despite the shoulder injury -- expected to keep him out for three weeks -- he suffered during the Champions League final.
"Hopefully he can be fit for the World Cup because I know it means a lot to him to play for his national team," Lovren told reporters. "I'm positive. I have some news, but I will keep it to myself.
"Mo is the type of player who wants to play even when he feels pain. He showed that this season. There were a couple of games where people didn't know [that he was in pain], but in the end he scored a hat trick or whatever.
"Of course it was disappointing for him that he couldn't finish the game in Kiev, but he's positive and hopefully he can move on and play for the national team."
The three-week timescale for Salah's recovery predicted by the Egyptian Football Association would be likely to see him miss the opening two group games before potentially returning for the finale against Saudi Arabia on June 25.
Salah heads into the World Cup on the back of a record-breaking first season at Liverpool, during which he scored 44 goals and claimed the PFA and Football Writers' Association Player of the Year awards.
And the 25-year-old's Liverpool teammate Andrew Robertson believes he can reproduce such form next season, enabling him to be considered in the same bracket as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
"They've done it for six or seven seasons and he's just done it one," Robertson said. "But I've got no doubt Salah can build on it and do it over that period of time.
"It's the way the gaffer wants him to play, so hopefully he can continue and really build on it and become one of the names alongside Messi and Ronaldo."