Arne Slot and Richard Hughes planning €100m attacking revolution
Arne Slot and Richard Hughes planning €100m attacking revolution Liverpool will be waving goodbye to Mohamed Salah on Sunday. The Egyptian King departs Anfield after nine glorious years - having reached an agreement to rip up his £400k per week contract one year early. And focus now turns on which player will come to Merseyside in order to replace the two-time African footballer of the year.
And it looks like we can rule out an exact stylistic match. There are very few players out there who can replicate what Salah was doing at his peak. And those linked with a similar profile - left-footed, creative, prone to cutting inside - are unlikely to be signed for various reasons.
Jarrod Bowen is perhaps a little too old now - especially given West Ham’s valuation - and Michael Olise is unattainable. Others associated with an Anfield move such as Yankuba Minteh and Dario Osorio would be coming in with an awful lot to prove. For those reasons and more we should expect Liverpool to move away from that Salah - Messi - Olise - Robben type of attacker.
Right-footed right winger to get the best out of Isak Arne Slot drew ridicule earlier in the season when he suggested Alexander Isak was missing a player like Jacob Murphy at Newcastle. How could the Dutchman be talking about an unheralded player like Murphy to explain away Isak’s lack of impact for the Reds? Well for one Murphy’s remit was to get the ball across to Isak from his right-wing station.
And as a right-footed right winger - who in fairness can put the ball on a sixpence - there may be some truth to the matter. Then we saw reports emerge that Liverpool were considering other right-footed right wingers - in the case of Bradley Barcola and Franck Honorat . Again this makes sense if you want to replicate the kind of environment £125m man Isak had at St.