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‘Liverpool got lucky with Salah deal’ – Klopp concedes he didn’t expect Egyptian to be so good

The Reds boss always believed that a big-money addition could thrive at Anfield, but admits nobody could have predicted how important he would become

Jurgen Klopp admits Liverpool got lucky in their £36.9 million ($46m) acquisition of Mohamed Salah, with the Egyptian having proved to be better than anyone at Anfield could have predicted.

The Reds moved to bring the former Chelsea forward back to English football in the summer of 2017.

Salah had flourished in Italy with Fiorentina and Roma since leaving the Premier League, but he was not expected to become a talismanic presence on Merseyside quite so quickly.