Resurgent Mohamed Salah deserves to be labeled as the best signing of the season

Many eyebrows were raised when Liverpool splashed £36.9 million to sign Mohamed Salah. One minute, the Egyptian can be an utterly thrilling player and in the next, an utterly frustrating one. The Egyptian has the ability to turn a match on its head in a moment or blow an opponent out of the water with his combination of frightening pace and incisive running.

But his infamous knack to miss when it seems far easier to score forced Chelsea to send him out on various frustrating loan spells and eventually offload him to Roma where he managed to revive his faltering career.

Although he scored 29 goals in 65 appearances for Roma when the Merseyside Club signed him for such a huge fee, he was returning to the only country which had proved to be his nemesis, albeit over a very short period. This could have made his adaptation into the very fast-paced Premier League a little bit tricky.

And after twelve round of league games, Mohamed Salah has managed to eclipse the costlier Romelu Lukaku, Alexandre Lacazette, Alvaro Morata and Bernardo Silva with his all-around play.

There is no doubt that he has improved the quality of Liverpool's side and his marvellous goal against Southampton acted as testimony to this. He has significantly improved in shooting accuracy also, which forced his parent club, Chelsea to offload him in the first place.

Nearly sixty-five percent of his efforts on goal have been on target and he has even 9 goals and two assists in his first 12 Premier League games, the best of any player in Liverpool FC history, and one ahead of the Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler which is no mean feat. His expected goals per 90 minutes over the last twelve league games stand at outstanding 0.71.

His work rate off the ball for the Merseyside club has been fantastic which has completely suited the high pressing style of Jurgen Klopp. He mucks in tirelessly with his other two attacking partners, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane, to start the pressing from up front and win the ball back as high up the pitch as they can.

His presence as an attacker gives Coutinho spaces to operate and perform much better when opponents defend deep against the Liverpool. This has also helped midfielders- Jordan Henderson, Emre Can and Gini Wijnaldum, sitting behind those attackers, to also perform better as they are able to play those diagonal balls in open spaces which he chases enthusiastically.

Apart from these, he has also added a new dimension to Liverpool's counter-attack. Last season, Liverpool seemed to have overly reliant on Sadio mane to finish off the counter attacks and suffered immensely when Mane wasn't available to play.

This season he has filled that gap impressively. His goals against Arsenal and West Ham mainly highlighted his ability to leave the defenders behind and throw them off balance, solely using pace.

Mohamed Salah held his nerve to score a 95th-minute penalty to send Egypt to the World Cup

The thrilling Egyptian, who managed just two goals in 19 appearances for Chelsea before moving to Roma for £12m, seems to have plugged the goalscoring hole in Liverpool’s attack created by Luiz Suarez’s departure in 2014. In the Liverpool's attacking system he has proved to be more than a traditional winger. He is being deployed as the wide striker who often comes into dangerous attacking areas and scores important goals for his club.

He was also instrumental in his national side's qualifying campaign as Egypt's 27-Year Wait to Qualify For FIFA World Cup ended. He scored both of Egypt's goals and the second was a calmly struck penalty in the fourth minute of second-half injury time for a dramatic finish.

Jurgen Klopp has himself admitted that he is ­surprised by how well Salah has done in his first few months at Anfield. Astonishingly, Salah has 14 goals in 18 appearances, in all competitions this season, already matching the total of last season’s top scorer for Liverpool (Philippe Coutinho who scored 14 in 36 appearances) and if he keeps this current vein of form, you wonder just how many he could end up with.