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Jurgen Klopp hailed Mohamed Salah's impact after an impressive debut in the 1-1 draw against Wigan Athletic.



The club's record signing scored on his debut to level the scores on the stroke of half time, capping off an exciting first 45 minutes in red.



The £36.9million man, who was forced to miss the opening pre-season friendly against Tranmere on Wednesday, was finally cleared to play after obtaining his working visa in Paris earlier this week.



After making the former Roma man his first major signing of the summer, Klopp was delighted with what he saw – both in attack and defence.



Salah cancelled out Alex Gilbey's opener after good work from both Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino, with the Reds boss happy with the endeavour his entire front line – and warned more was to come.





“Salah is a good example,” he said. “He had no idea how to defend normally, usually because he was not involved. He had two days of training, then Paris, then back here so we thought we should use him.



“He is really used to a completely different way of defending.



“First situation (nearly scoring after 41 seconds) was a nice sprint, the goal was the easiest situation in the game, but they had a few wonderful pieces of football.

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“Roberto (Firmino), Phil (Coutinho), Adam (Lallana). Gini (Wijnaldum) as a no.6 was good and Ben (Woodburn) was on a good way.



“That was good but it is not where they can be, it was just a sign but that's important.”



While Salah made his first appearance in a Liverpool shirt, Lucas Leiva is almost certain to have made his last, with Lazio bidding £5million for the Brazilian.





Klopp would not be drawn on Lucas' future however – nor that of Sheyi Ojo, who is expected to complete a loan move to Middlesbrough.



He said: “I am not 100% sure because I'm not sure how it is at the moment but I think for Lucas and his outstanding, fantastic time at Liverpool, we should talk about facts and not rumours.



“We have to wait, I'm not sure. Maybe something, maybe not, like last year and half a year ago.”



On Ojo, he added: “He was at home. We changed at half-time, had two substitutes and I think it does not make sense to change after 20 minutes of half time.”