Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has confessed he didn't expect Mohamed Salah to reach the heights he has since arriving from Roma.

Klopp was convinced enough about Salah's temperament, attitude and quality to make him a club-record signing from Roma at £36.9million.

But even the Liverpool manager didn't think the 'Egyptian King' would be this good.

"No, of course not, I don't even think Mo saw that, that is how it is," he told the Liverpool Echo. "We all have our dreams and Mo for sure, he dreams big and wants to achieve a lot and that is good. The way we play helped him, the status he had from the first day in the team helped him.

"It was different for him than in other years, we don't have to talk about Chelsea, but it was a completely different role he played and even at Roma, he had Edin Dzeko next to him, he is the main man in the decisive situations, it's 'give the ball to him' that is how it is.

"Like at Barcelona, it is Lionel Messi and stuff like that, so you have these teams, we don't have that here. So he could fill a role that we didn't have in that moment with the two workhorses around him with Bobby (Roberto Firmino) and Sadio (Mane). It is quite a good offensive line!

"We didn't see that he would score 44 goals but we saw that he would help us and that is the most important thing. I was really happy for him and happy for us. We need a bit of luck with signings, we had that."