Liverpool are expected to undergo another squad overhaul during the 2026 summer transfer window.
Andy Robertson and Mohamed Salah are leaving as free agents after 2025/26, while Federico Chiesa could be on the move as well.
Said exits will leave Liverpool very short on right-wing options, but Jamie Carragher is of the opinion that Jeremie Frimpong needs to stop being used at right-back and instead act as a wide option next term.
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Speaking to the Liverpool Echo, Carragher was commenting on the signings Liverpool need to make in the upcoming transfer window.
A replacement for Salah was obviously mooted, while despite having three options in that position already – Frimpong, Conor Bradley and Joe Gomez – the ex-Red says his former team should sign a right-back and have Bradley, not the Dutchman, competing for that role.
The former Bayer Leverkusen man, on the other hand, should be used as the back-up to whichever right-sided winger is signed in the summer.
He said: “Liverpool need a right-back, they have fudged a few things there, they gave Conor Bradley his chance, he got another injury.
“Jeremie Frimpong has done all right actually. I think he has done OK. But for me, I think Frimpong should be the back-up right-winger to the one that we buy in the summer. And I think Conor Bradley can fight with a new right-back that comes in.”
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The 25-year-old has played a few games on the wing already this season, but the majority of his outings (22) have come at right-back.
That is perhaps somewhat surprising given Frimpong was never a natural full-back and enjoyed most of his success at Leverkusen, from whom Liverpool signed him for £29.5m, when used as a wing-back in a five.
Will Liverpool switch to a three/five-man defence next season? It seems unlikely, even if it would accommodate a lot of their players.
But with a move for Yan Diomande planned, it would not make sense to spend all that money on a winger, then use a formation he doesn’t fit in properly.
At present, Liverpool are not strongly linked with a new right-back, so it remains to be seen if Carragher will get his wish of fresh legs in the back four.
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