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After a remarkable 44-goal debut campaign, Mohamed Salah has scored three times in Liverpool's first seven games of the season.

Indeed, Salah shows no signs of slowing down, brushing off criticism of his early season form to continue to find the net in his second campaign with the Reds.

And last night the Egyptian scooped the FIFA Puskas Award for his stunning strike in January's Merseyside derby against Everton.

The success of Salah's Liverpool career so far would not have been imagined by many.

In fact, when the Reds secured his signature last year, there were doubters. Even after a solid start within his first month, those doubters remained.

It is something the former Roma man has had to deal with throughout his career. After all, he was sold by Chelsea after just six Premier League starts.

He has quietened a lot of critics. Here is a list of those he has proven wrong so far.

Monchi

The Spanish transfer guru arrived in Rome with a huge reputation following a successful operation at Sevilla. Helping discover a host of top Spanish stars – Alberto Moreno included – and renowned for driving a hard bargain, he was hired by Roma to overhaul their transfer business.

One of his first major acts, however, was to sell Salah to Liverpool for £36.9million. That Liverpool are certain they now have a bargain shows just how undervalued he made the Egyptian.

There were suggestions Roma needed to sell some of their top stars to balance the books, but Salah's efforts last season – with 15 Serie A goals – would suggest the fee was low. His performances in his first season make that astronomically so.

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Jose Mourinho

Salah is in good company now. Sold by Chelsea with not much opportunity to shine under Mourinho, the winger joins Kevin de Bruyne and Romelu Lukaku as players discarded too early during the Portuguese coach's reign.

Salah was allowed just six Premier League starts, and was not given more than a year to impress at Stamford Bridge. In his final half-season in West London, during the 2014/15 campaign, he featured for just 30 minutes in three league outings.

Mourinho, and Chelsea, have been proven wrong on their judgement.

Jermaine Jenas

The former Tottenham midfielder, now a BBC Sport pundit, is one of the more sensible observers of the game.

But even he fell into the trap of underestimating Salah – despite a fine start to his Liverpool career.

After the 5-0 defeat to Manchester City last year, Jenas mulled over his long-term future.

“He has been brilliant so far but, does Mo Salah even start for Liverpool if Coutinho is back in the team?” Jenas said on BBC Radio 5 Live.

“You've got Adam Lallana to come in as well.

“Liverpool have been very good against the other sides in the top six for the past few years.

“The best way for them to defend is to get in the opposition's faces and press high up the pitch.”

How strange those comments sound now.

Steve Nicol

The European Cup winner is a regular voice of doom on ESPN with regards Liverpool, and he did so once more, believing the transfer fee was too high for a 'bit part player'.

“It is a lot of money, yeah," he said.

"It's a lot of money for Liverpool to buy a player, who, if everybody is fit, I don't think starts.

"You play Coutinho on the left, you play Mane on the right.

"I don't think you play Salah through the middle, that means he doesn't start.

"As far as the squad, obviously Liverpool are in the Champions League yes, but for £40m?

"I don't think so.”

Follow all the build up to Liverpool's clash with Chelsea HERE

Mina Rzouki

The football pundit, seen on BBC, BT, CNN and ESPN, told BBC Radio 5 Live upon Salah's signature that he resembled another Chelsea 'flop' in Juan Cuadrado, and also questioned the player's football intelligence.

She said: “As much as he's good, direct and has a lot of pace about him, I'm not convinced of his footballing IQ.

“I do think he's a player who tends to run forward then look second, which irritates me, somewhat.

"For me, he's another Juan Cuadrado - and as much talent they have, they have the pace, the technique, the running with the ball - it's just channelling it at the right moments and making the right decisions.

“I don't think that's what they have.”

Cuadrado never notched in a Chelsea shirt.

Mina has since responded to the claims after unfair criticism of her views.

We all get things wrong, after all!

Named Salah as the breakthrough player of the season, she told the BBC Sport website: "It has to be a Liverpool player. This is a guy I famously didn't think would do everything he managed to do.

"Watching him at Roma, he was a good player but nothing like what's he's proved to be at Liverpool. He's a different player - he has the spark, quality, pace and understanding with his team-mates.

"He's proved to be the difference maker. When you look at what he was for Roma, that match against Real Madrid and now, he's fantastic."

Barney Ronay

Guardian football writer Barney Ronay was another to get it wrong about Mo Salah.

So much so that he even went as far as to write a piece asking for forgiveness.

“Liverpool have bought a good left-back and spent an awful lot of money on Mohamed Salah," was how Ronay put it ahead of the start of the season.

Now he wants to see Salah crowned Player of the Season - even ahead of the likes of Kevin de Bruyne.

All is forgiven, Barney. You weren't the only one.