As they start to ponder potential replacements for Mohamed Salah, Liverpool are reportedly weighing up a transfer to signal a La Liga winger who simply stole the present in entrance of their scouts.
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The contract conditions of Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah stay the one uncertainties in life beneath Arne Slot, who has seamlessly changed Jurgen Klopp.
It appeared more likely to be mission inconceivable, however Slot arrived and shortly stamped his mark on the Reds to take them eight factors clear on the prime of the Premier League desk and prime of the Champions League, having simply defeated European champions Actual Madrid.
The previous Feyenoord boss will need to take full benefit of the present Liverpool squad while he nonetheless has it at his full disposal. As issues stand, he is set to lose Van Dijk, Salah and Alexander-Arnold when the summer season arrives and their contracts expire. It could be the last word catastrophe for these at Anfield, who’re already getting ready for the worst.
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In keeping with Graeme Bailey for The Boot Room, Liverpool are actually weighing up a transfer to signal Takefusa Kubo after sending scouts to observe the winger rating and help in a 2-1 victory for Actual Sociedad in opposition to Ajax in midweek. Stealing the present, the Japan worldwide picked the right time to impress, with scouts additionally reportedly in attendance from Aston Villa, Arsenal and Newcastle United.
If Salah does depart in the summertime, Kubo actually represents an fascinating choice – and an in-demand one, at that. However whether or not he has the output ranges to step in for the Egyptian stays to be seen.
“Superb” Kubo would have inconceivable job
To place it merely, there’s not many wingers in world soccer who’re able to changing Salah at Liverpool. He’s an Anfield legend, and changing him was by no means going to be a straightforward job. Simply this season, Salah has scored 12 targets and assisted one other 10 in 19 video games in all competitions to fireplace Liverpool in the direction of glory. It is an output that not many, together with Kubo, would battle to copy at Anfield.
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League stats 24/25 (through FBref) |
Takefusa Kubo |
Mohamed Salah |
|---|---|---|
|
Objectives |
3 |
10 |
|
Assists |
0 |
6 |
|
Anticipated Objectives |
1.8 |
8.4 |
|
Take-ons Accomplished |
26 |
20 |
The Japan worldwide has at the least out-performed his anticipated targets whole, indicative of the standard of his ending, however three objective involvements is not spectacular sufficient to counsel that he must be the one to exchange Salah as quickly as subsequent 12 months.
Praised by analyst Ben Mattinson for his “wonderful imaginative and prescient”, Kubo should additionally start to create with such a capability, having struggled to get off the mark on the assists entrance within the present league marketing campaign.
With loads of unanswered questions on Salah’s future, Liverpool will not discover the answer to their downside at Actual Sociedad in the summertime.
