Liverpool spent a great deal this summer, but has lost more attackers than they have signed with Jamie Carragher, they cannot pin all their hope in signing Alexander Isak
Jamie Carragher states that Liverpool will not be able to keep their Premier League crown without landing at least one new attacker, while he encouraged the club to consider a backup from Alexander Isak.
The Reds remain enthusiastic about the frontman of Newcastle, who tries to force his exit from St James' park. Liverpool tested their determination by offering £ 110 million, but that was quickly rejected by the magpies.
Arne Slot has supervised an attacking overhaul with Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez both further. Hugo Ekitike has arrived from Frankfurt, but he is just one of the four recognized attackers in the books next to Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo and Federico Chiesa, where the club is still mourning for the tragic death of Diogo Jota.
Despite the quality they possess, Carragher insists that Trio cannot be trusted to produce the goals that Liverpool will dismiss for another success of the Premier League – especially with Salah who leaves for a longer period to compete for Egypt later this season.
As a result, he is determined that they must start drawing up alternatives to Isak if it becomes clear that Newcastle will not sell their leading light.
He wrote in the Telegraph: “Slot will not defend the crown with just three out-and-out attackers from Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo and Hugo Ekitike. They cannot wear the goals without at least one, preferably two, top-class operators in the Frontline in December
Liverpool has long been praised for their transfer activity, which has given them the right to a certain degree of trust. And Carragher admits after the exit of Diaz for Bayern Munich “There was an assumption that they had drawn up a younger replacement” – but nothing has flourished yet.
The Reds have no time to find more goals and Carragher insists that if a deal is not closed by the beginning of next week, the club “must accept that it will not happen in this transfer window.”
British record signing Florian Wirtz will offer enormous creativity and has shown that he has an eye on goal, but not the attacker is out and out that Liverpool has often looked at in recent years. In their opening evening victory over Bournemouth Salah, Gakpo and Ekitike were all on goal, but the lack of depth outside of them remains care.