Mohamed Salah might currently be at the peak of his powers, but even the PFA Player of the Year can keep learning new tricks.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has been speaking to Sky Sports about his strike options ahead of the Reds' mouth-watering Monday night clash against Manchester United. And the German has took the opportunity to point out that top goalscorer Salah, who recently signed a new long-term deal to stay at Anfield, has returned for the new season with something different.
Klopp said: "I think he found a right foot on holiday. He always develops. It's really crazy. I know a few years back he arrived and usually when a player comes from outside inside they use the inside of the foot to spin the ball and all of a sudden he had the full throttle - the Chelsea goal is a pretty remarkable one. This year he arrived with crosses with his right foot."
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Salah found the net five times against United last season and one more on Monday evening would see the Egyptian become the outright top scorer in the stand-out fixture between English football's two most successful clubs.
"I'm pretty sure he knows that. I didn't know it but I'm pretty sure Mo knows it, so good news!" added Klopp.
With Sadio Mane moving to Bayern Munich in the summer, Liverpool's frontline is currently undergoing some re-engineering. New signing Darwin Nunez endured something of a nightmare home debut against Crystal Palace, receiving a red card before the hour mark, so it was left to January signing Luis Diaz to come up trumps, producing a scintillating solo goal at the Kop end that will live long in the memory.
Klopp believes that his Colombian star is benefitting from having had to come straight into the side on his arrival from Porto and is under no illusions as to how important he will be to the Reds' hopes this season.
Klopp said: "He had to play immediately because two boys were at the Africa Cup of Nations, so that helped him settle in. That gave him immediate confidence. It's his quality, his talent, his skillset. He's a really good player. We knew it before and when you're really good it's easier to settle in.
"He has this special thing: He can score from outside the box, which for a striker is really important. He's very, very important for us."
With United suffering a nightmare start to their season, Liverpool will head into the Old Trafford match-up as favourites, but Klopp accepts that his own side's start to the new campaign is below their own standard and will not use last season's trouncing of their old foes in their own back yard as any means of measuring how things might pan out this time around.
He added: "I don't think about these kind of things. It makes life not easier when you arrive there now. It's already a very, very, very important game - as if it wasn't important enough before - for United and for us as well, we are not over the moon about our start.
"When you do the [pre-game] analysis you try to figure out what an opponent might do. We played them in pre-season and we've seen them playing twice. But I don't know how many changes he'll make, I don't know if he'll change the approach.
"But it's early in the season, it's always like this, you never know. For example, last week Crystal Palace played once before with a five at the back and now they play against us with five in the back. Interesting!
"We give the players all the information they need but in the end it's all about what the boys bring on the pitch. In all the media, everywhere, everyone will remind United about the results we had last year. But I knew last year they wouldn't help for next year.
"We know what's at stake and I'm pretty sure we'll be ready."
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