Liverpool are expected to undergo another summer of change despite spending £450m last year.
Arne Slot has failed to take the team forward, and there is talk that five positions could be targeted at Anfield in the next window.
Rousing The Kop’s readers have now been debating who Liverpool should sign using our TalkingPoints platform, with Yan Diomande and Michael Olise among the favourites.
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Diomande has been linked a great deal this year and is thought to have a price tag of around £87m.
Elsewhere, there were also shouts for Premier League players like Anthony Gordon and Jarrod Bowen.
A deal for Gordon does not look on the cards, while Bowen may be too old.
But there are still plenty of viable options out there for the Reds, and some of the fan responses to Liverpool’s dream summer signing can be seen below:
- “Diomande is good for us.”
- Jarrad Bowen, I have rated the West Ham forward for some time and I can really see him banging the goals in for Liverpool FC”
- “Yeah, I think Gordon is made for a high-pressing side. He could actually do what Diaz did pretty effectively, as long as he improves his end product.”
- “Michael Olise.”
- [Diomande] Age and ability to mould the player we want.”
- “He’d [Olise] been the dream, but doesn’t seem like Bayern are letting him go, Diomande not a bad alternative though.”
- He [Diomande] looks amazing but I do worry about Bundesliga forwards. No shade at Wirtz, there’s just so much more space in the German league for wingers in particular.”
- The PL experience [of Olise] makes it so appealing, and he’s gone up levels.
- “I can see Anthony Gordon hit the ground running for the Reds. His pace and goals would be a real asset for us. I would take Gordon over Rogers, Rogers is not as dynamic and game-changing as Gordon.”
Liverpool’s chances of signing Michael Olise
Olise already has 21 goals and 30 assists in all competitions for Bayern Munich this season.
On paper, he is probably the best signing Liverpool could get to fill the void left by Mohamed Salah.
However, Bayern chief Karl-Heinz Rummenigge commented on Olise’s future recently and suggested he will be going nowhere.
When asked whether Bayern could afford to reject a possible €200m offer for Olise, he said: “I’ll tell you a story from the past. In 2009, we had an incredible offer from Chelsea for Franck Ribery.
“That would have been a new world record transfer at the time. I went to our then finance director Karl Hopfner and Uli Hoeness. We discussed for two hours what we should do with this offer.
“On that day, we made a fundamental decision that in future we would no longer sell any player who we would miss from a sporting perspective. And this unwritten law still applies today. For a player like Olise, there is no price tag that would make us flinch.”
In turn, it seems like Liverpool will have to focus their attention elsewhere once the summer window opens on June 15.
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