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Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah were greeted by scores of Liverpool fans upon their arrival in Ghana on Thursday.

The Liverpool duo are two of the three-man shortlist for the CFA award in Accra on Thursday evening, with 23-goal Salah expected to scoop the gong in the Ghanaian capital.

Salah and Mane will be present at the awards show on Thursday , less than 24 hours before Jurgen Klopp's charges take on Everton in the FA Cup third round.

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Salah will miss the 230th Merseyside derby through injury, but Mane can still theoretically play a part and the pair are pencilled in to take a private jet back to Merseyside after the awards show.

Ahead of their touchdown in Africa, dozens of Liverpool fans were pictured on social media at both Kotoka International Airport and the venue of where the ceremony is being held.

It's been an outstanding year for Salah, who scored 19 goals in all competitions for Roma last season.

The Egypt international has scored 23 goals for the Reds since his £36.9m move back in June to go level with Roger Hunt for most goals scored in a single season before the turn of the year.

Salah has also thrived on the international stage too. He netted a double, which included a 95th-minute penalty, against Congo back in October to send Egypt to their first World Cup since Italia 1990.

Mane also impressed in 2017. The Senegal international scored 13 goals in his first season at Anfield to help the Reds secure a top-four spot last term.

Borussia Dortmund's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is the third man in the hunt for the CAF award.

Speaking on his decision to allow his influential African forwards to attend the ceremony after the 2-1 win at Burnley this week, Klopp said: "Yes, they will go.

"We have everything organised. We have two of the three best African players in our squad. We have to show them respect.

“If it had been a matchday they wouldn’t have asked, but the night before is fine. We sleep in a hotel, they sleep in a plane. That is all the difference, the modern world.

“If Mo is not fit, it will not be for that. For our side, it is just a sign of respect. I know it, I had Aubameyang too, and there is nothing more important for them than to go there. It's fine."