Liverpool seems dangerously thin in attack while the summer transfer window is approaching its end, with Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo and the new signature of Hugo Ekitike The three main options for manager Arne Slot and only Federico Chiesa as a senior before deep in the whole front line.
Last season, Slot had Salah and Gakpo as well as Luis Diaz, Darwin Nuñez and Diogo Jota as options before reaching the apparently unknown chiesa. Even if the Italian is one of the slot plans for the 2025-26 season, this seems clearly retrograde in the club’s depth of attack department.
For a team that seeks to defend a title of the Premier League and to play more than 60 games – a side which, even with the options in hand last season, seemed exhausted towards the end – to close the transfer window without at least one more attack signature would be a clear and total failure.
Despite this, and despite the club’s difficulties to convince Newcastle to separate from the Superstar striker Alexander Isak, the journalist connected to the club Paul Joyce today Time Excluded a pair of alleged options from Plan B in Bradley Barcola de Paris Saint-Germain and Malick Fofana from Lyon.
It is an excursion that will raise the eyebrows, with a feeling of growth, Liverpool is about to turn a window that has seen them sign Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkeez and Ekitike in disappointment and an overall team lower than the Reds finished last season.
It would be one thing to stick to their weapons and say nothing less than planning a will if, at the very least, the team was not weaker than last season. It would be much more difficult to accept that the club has no aligned replacements or a viable B plan after the many departures of this summer.
