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Jurgen Klopp has warned the Premier League that Mo Salah has IMPROVED from last season.

Liverpool striker Salah scored an astonishing 46 goals for club and country in 2017-18 as he announced himself at the summit of world football.

Despite that miraculous campaign, it all ended in crushing disappointment for the Egyptian, who was forced out of the Champions League final before halftime by a shoulder injury and then saw his nation flop at the World Cup, losing all three matches.

Yet Klopp says he has seen NO signs of that affecting his star — and the 26-year-old's two goals in the three games of the fledgling season so far have shown him Salah can do more than ever this time around.

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“Mo is a very smart person. He’s not thinking about the end of last season, he knows our game here, he knows he had no number in his mind or thought, ‘OK, let me score a new record,’” the German coach said.

“It was only ever, ‘Let’s score goals. Let’s play football’. And to me he looks like he is exactly in that mood again... only with more confidence, because now he knows it’s possible.

“But that is the only change. We need him to score goals but not overly. And that’s how it looks from him.

“He’s not a kid any more and he doesn’t expect that everything will be like this all the time. If it is not like that any more, then he will dig deep, he is completely settled.”

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Klopp revealed that he has had several conversations with Salah as the season gets underway, and has discussed the ongoing problem the forward has with his country’s FA, in a lumbering row that many fear will unsettle his club form.

And the Liverpool manager is adamant, as he prepares to visit Leicester and defend the Reds’ 100 per cent start to the season in Saturday's early kickoff, that the fall-out with his Egyptian bosses will make no impact on the Reds' campaign.

Asked if it could unsettle him, Klopp replied: “No. I can’t see that at the moment. It’s 100 per cent clear. He wants to, from his heart, play for his country and he wants to play for us.

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“So the rest is here, (taps his head). You have to sort it; there, they have to sort it. When was the last time Egypt had a player like him? They need to get used to it. So far, maybe it was not perfect. Make it perfect, and everything is fine at the end.”

Klopp hinted he is ready to make changes to the settled XI which won their first three Premier League games and one likely inclusion will be the return of skipper Jordan Henderson in midfield, with either James Milner or Gini Wijnaldum making way.

The manager explained his captain has been fine with being sidelined for the first few matches, adding: “Hendo is such an important player to us and he knows that.”