Liverpool made the masterstroke decision of signing a 25-year-old Mohamed Salah in 2017 for £34m, with the fee later rising to £43m - though the majority of Europe, and especially the Premier League, didn't see it that way.
While that fee has been largely paled into insignificance seven years later, at the time £34m was an awful lot of money. It seemed an extortionate amount for someone who had struggled to adapt to Premier League football while at Chelsea in 2014.
