Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has vowed to keep silencing his critics as the Liverpool midfielder insisted: “There’s so much more to come.”

The England international produced a man of the match display in Saturday’s 2-0 win over Newcastle United at Anfield.

Oxlade-Chamberlain’s importance to Jurgen Klopp’s side is growing after a slow start to his Liverpool career.

The 24-year-old admits he was stung by criticism from the likes of Thierry Henry and Gary Neville following his £35million move from Arsenal last summer.

Former Gunners team-mate Henry remarked “I still don’t know what he’s good at” with ex-England coach Neville labelling it “a brilliant deal” for the Londoners and declaring that Oxlade-Chamberlain wouldn’t strengthen Klopp’s first choice line up.

“I was very aware of those comments,” Oxlade-Chamberlain said.

“It is not nice to hear it from your peers or people you have worked with. I have worked with them both in different capacities.

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“They can have their own opinions. If people want to say those things, you remember them, you don’t forget them, but I am not here to make enemies.

“It cannot shake me. Fair enough if that is what they think. I am not really too bothered.

“The important thing is that when I came here I had a manager who had faith in me and he felt something different to that and I had faith in myself. That is why I made the step.

“Everyone says you have to be your own biggest fan and believe in yourself. I am old enough and wise enough and I have been around it long enough to know that things will be said and not nice things a lot of the time.”

If Henry was still wondering what Oxlade-Chamberlain does the answer was staring the Frenchman in the face five minutes before half-time at Anfield on Saturday.

Seizing on a loose ball in midfield, he drove forward and expertly created the opening goal for Mohamed Salah. Oxlade-Chamberlain also put one on a plate for the 32-goal Egyptian winger in the win over West Ham a week earlier.

“Saying ‘you don’t know what I do’ when you have worked with me, I think it is a bit stupid,” he added. “When you have watched someone long enough you know what they can do.

“If they are referencing more end product then that’s fair enough, I hold my hands up. That is something that I have been working on and still need to work on.

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“It is a nice feeling to come off the pitch knowing you helped contribute in some way to a good win. Ultimately, you are there to score and if not create for others. That gives you a boost and that is what you live for and play for. The more I can do that, the happier I will be.

“There was an opportunity in the second half when, because of the opportunity in the first half when I slipped Mo in, I tried to do it again to Bobby (Firmino) and maybe I should have shot. I look back at moments like that and in the next game I will try and put them right.

“It’s about scoring goals, setting up goals as an attacking player and that is what I have to keep doing. It is not about just doing it for a couple of games.”

Oxlade-Chamberlain’s decision to end his six-year stay at Arsenal and head north in search of a fresh start has certainly been vindicated.

He’s part of a blossoming Klopp team which sits second in the Premier League and on the brink of the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

In stark contrast Arsene Wenger’s reign is in crisis with the Gunners cut adrift from the top four and humbled by Manchester City in the League Cup final.

Oxlade-Chamberlain has stepped up following Philippe Coutinho’s departure to Barcelona and is delivering in his favoured advanced central midfield role.

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However, he knows he has to maintain the standards set in recent weeks and has the perfect role model in Salah.

“You look at the best midfielders in the world and the best strikers – Mo this season – they keep their form going,” he added.

“For me, I think that is the main focus to try and be more consistent on that front and be demanding. So that even if you have had a couple of good games, you don’t take your foot off the gas. You want more - success breeds success.

“When you are doing well you want to keep it going and do more - that is how I am feeling.

“There is more in me, I know I have to keep pushing on. I can take so much from someone like Mo. Just look at him this season.

“It has been never ending and relentless. To be competing with Harry Kane and Sergio Aguero for top goalscorer, people probably wouldn’t have expected that from him at the start of the season.

“To put himself in that position is down to the mentality that he has got in him to work hard and get the best out of himself. You can take inspiration from that and I have got to keep pushing myself.

“I have nine games left in the league and obviously we have the Champions League and I want to give the best of myself in those games and do as much as I can to help this team finish as high as we can.”