TREBLE IN PARADISE Salah, Mane and Firmino are winning the threedom of the city

AFTER the demise of the Fab Four, Liverpool have a new phenomenon: The Big Three.

It is an apt nickname for Mo Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane – the Merseybeat band of the same name who arrived on the coat-tails of the Beatles had their biggest hit with ‘Some Other Guy’, which is what the departed Philippe Coutinho has become.

Despite the doom and gloom surrounding Coutinho’s move to Barca in January, the Reds haven’t missed him at all – and it’s all thanks to their dynamic attacking trident.

Between them Mane, Salah and Firmino have scored 73 goals already this season, just four short of the highestscoring forward line in Liverpool history in a single season.

Already the Big Three have scored more between them than the fabled

SAS front line of 201314 (Daniel Sturridge and Luiz Suarez, far right, and Raheem Sterling), which scored 65 goals in a season Liverpool went close to winning the title.

And they have also outscored the trio of strikers who last led the

Reds to the title in

1990, when Ian Rush,

John Barnes and Peter Beardsley got 70.

Now only the Second Division title-winning side of 1961-62 stand in their way of history. Back then, as a Bill Shankly-inspired Liverpool finally returned to the top flight, Roger Hunt (top), Ian St John (centre) and Jimmy Melia (bottom) scored 77 goals between them to lay the foundations for an Anfield dynasty.

With a minimum of nine games left this season, the Big Three will surely eclipse that and, to boss Jurgen Klopp, that comes as no surprise.

Salah has won most of the acclaim for his astonishing goal feats this season but the Reds boss believes the trio come as a package and wouldn’t be anywhere near as good without each other. “Mo knows he needs the others,” said Klopp. “Roberto and Mo work really well together. And Sadio is the perfect link between midfield because he’s not constantly on the last line – he’s got to use his speed in a different way.

“That’s how you try to use these three guys in the right positions.”

For Klopp it is the ability of Mane and Firmino to free up so much space that allows Salah, a £35million summer signing from Roma, to score so many goals – 38 already this season and counting.

The Egyptian was 4-1 just a week ago to win the PFA Player Of The Year award,way behind the unbackable favourite Kevin De Bruyne, but after his fourgoal haul against Watford on Saturday he is just 6-5, with the City midfielder 4-7.

“Salah played more on the wing in Rome where he had a very dominant striker in Edin Dzeko,” Klopp went on.

“Nobody could know that he could play as a striker.

“We learned it step by step. “We will not say to him ‘You don’t have to train, Mo – just come on Saturday for the game.’ He doesn’t want that.

“He’s in the moment of his career but he knows there is a lot more to come.

“He wants to learn and he wants to improve.”