For the cost of just £3m, the Mohamed Salah x Liverpool love affair could have started three-and-a-half years earlier.
In theory, anyway.
It was January 2014, and the Reds were seeking to sign a 21-year-old Egyptian winger from Basel to add a bit of depth to Brendan Rodgers' extremely thin squad, a group that included the goals of Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge, the youthful exuberance of Raheem Sterling and Philippe Coutinho and the experience and drive of Steven Gerrard, but was still somewhat built on sand.
