Jamie Carragher has again expressed his disapproval that Liverpool may signed Alexander Isak by mentioning five more deals to concentrate the Reds on the line
Jamie Carragher Sikt Alexander Isak when mentioning the five deals he wants Liverpool for the end of the summer transfer window. The Premier League champions have already spent around £ 300 million this summer on Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike, Milos Kerkez, Armin Pesci, Freddie Woodman and Jeremie Frimpong this summer.
The Reds refuse to rest on their laurels and are also closely connected to a movement for Isak. They have already had a mammoth £ 110 million pray that Newcastle was rejected by Newcastle at the beginning of this month.
With the Swedish striker who apparently is ready to become a member of the Anfield club, Liverpool should increase their offer to an amount that the British transfer record would comfortably crush to convince Newcastle to sell. But Carragher does not think that a deal for Isak should currently be a priority for the club hierarchy, and that is largely due to the arrival of Ekitike last month for a fee of £ 69 million plus £ 10 million in potential add-ons.
The Reds legend, who speaks on Stick to Football by Sky Bet, emphasized that Liverpool should carry out the transfer activities instead, including the signing of two new Center-Backs-a position that Arne Slot was briefly left after the departure of Jarell Quansah and in the light of Ibrahima Konate's contract.
Carragher said, “They must get at least one center-back, maybe two.” Given the £ 26 million £ 26 million with Parma on Wednesday evening to sign the 18-year-old defender Giovanni Leoni, the captain Marc Guehi of the Crystal Palace leaves for a long time as one of Carragher's preferred movements.
He then acknowledged the potential departure of Federico Chiesa and Harvey Elliott as two more things, with their two potential attacking replacements that took that figure to five transactions before the end of the window on 1 September.
The expert said: “Liverpool needs two more attackers because they are going to sell Harvey Elliott and they will probably sell Federico Chiesa.”
When he had left Isak from the list by his colleague Gary Neville, Carragher doubled his earlier worries about the possible movement by saying that the Swede arrival would not match the decision to spend a lot of money on Ekitike already this summer.
Carragher said: “It [a forward signing] Can be another player. I was not fully invested in breaking the bank for Isak. It's not about him as a player, I'm worried about how robust he is to play for Liverpool twice a week. “
He added: “When you break the British transfer record for a player, he has to play almost every game. He just doesn't play when he is injured.
“Ekitike, who, according to Liverpool, will be the next ISAK, should be an understudy, but I think he is too good and too expensive to be an understudy. You will only play if he is injured.
“It is not as if Ekitike will have a year to learn the ropes and then to become a first choice will still be there if your center ahead next year. For me it has been done in the wrong direction.
'If he [Isak] Costs so much money that there will also be a pressure on the manager to say: “He is my husband” and play him. I just feel a bit for the boy [Ekitike] It was bought for £ 80 million and thought he would be the next big thing. “
It is, however, understood that Liverpool has given priority to signing an extra defender, whereby both Slot and Virgil van Dijk identify the defense as the weakest aspect of the team after their defeat about punishment by Crystal Palace in the Community Shield.