Liverpool ready to tender for 51 million pounds sterling ace

Liverpool won the Premier league Last season, and they act like that. Slot ArneThe side has spent a lot this summer, and it remains even more to come, FSG recognizing the importance of consolidating this position of power.

With Eintracht Frankfurt Hugo Ekitike dawn Sealing his move of 79 million pounds sterling in MerseysideLiverpool has the Darwin Nunez Upgrade they want.

Although a lot of work has been exercised on the summer market, there is no longer to do. Luis Diaz East Scheduled to move to Bayern Munichafter all.

If he left, there is no doubt that the reds will have to be replaced.

Liverpool’s restricted list of Diaz replacements

With Diaz looking more and more likely to leave Liverpool this summer, such as Real Madrid Rodgrygo and Newcastle United Star Anthony Gordon have been presented as potential replacements.

The problem with such objectives is that they would cost a large sum of money. Maybe too stiff. Although Liverpool can conclude such offers and staying in the right books of profit and sustainability, wouldn’t it be more interesting to target an arrival for a figure of muscular, with so much quality in Slot’s Squad?

This is why Reds are apparently ready to submit an offer for Malick Fofana from Lyon, which has made waves in Ligue 1 in the last 18 months.

According to reportsThe sale of Chiesa will progress the FSG transfer plans, the Belgian winger having been on the Liverpool radar for several months. The Merseysiders should “move for the Belgian” once the Italian.

Lyon Value the 20 -year -old up to 51 million pounds sterlingBut the sports director of Liverpool, Richard Hughes, will take place on the security of his signature for cheaper costs, cut into payments.

Why Liverpool should sign Malick Fofana

Fofana is a high level talent, but he has not even seen the horizon on which his full potential is overcome. Always, On 62 appearances With Lyon (whom he joined from the Belgium Club Genk in January 2024), he scored 15 goals and provided seven assists.

Last mandate, the versatile winger reach 17 contributions to the objective Despite only 23 games all competitions.

There is a long way to go, but Fofana could even emerge like a talent even greater than Ekitike in the long term, which is at another stage of their development at the moment, true, but with Fofana who was already doing as well as what he has done in recent years.

And looking at how Slot manages to train young talents at incredible levels, this is more emphasized. Journalist Antonio Mango drew attention to Fofana “game change potential“, while Journalist Dev Bajwa praised his “electric” rhythm.

If Liverpool sells Diaz, he is the man to follow. And it’s without even shining Cody AgatWho played with regularity off the left flank for the last slot team and would relieve the burden that a young person like Fofana shoulders when he headed for the senior first league scene.

You just have to look at Ekitike’s growth in recent years. The 23 -year -old left Reims for Paris Saint-Germain in an agreement of 30 million pounds sterling In 2022 (rejecting Newcastle United) where he got lost in the crowd and jumped towards the Bundesliga, with Francfurt.

Ekitike’s last term at Ligue 1 was with PSG in 2022/23, and from this peripheral campaign, you may not get the most precise gauge of his skills during this young scene of his homeland.

But the previous season, with Reims, made a firmer comment. From this, we can examine the quality of the French adolescent and see how he compared to Fofana, who was 20 years old in March.

Ekitike is a center-forward, but it is mobile and athletically dynamic. At this stage of his trip, the Liverpool star who will soon be presented on the left, arc inward in a performance of this natural predilection for the scorer.

The two, moreover, are firm defensive presences, which attack at a rate which gives their quality as the first line of defense of their team.

But the objectives are Fofana of Fofana, and its innate clinical advantage could see it becoming an even more dangerous force than Ekitike, which makes three years its elder.

Fofana ranked among the 10% the best in field environments and attackers in the best five leagues in Europe last season for marked non-penalty goals and the 2% most small for progressive races for 90, According to Fbrefperfectly illustrating this whipped mixture of rhythm and power.

A postponement is considered to be progressive if the ball is moved towards the objective of the opponent at least 10 meters from its starting point or is transported to the penalty zone.

It goes without saying that there would be a transition period in which Fofana would not work with the fluid exhaustiveness of Diaz, not at the same level as Ekitike (which could itself need a little time to adapt to the rhythm of the English game).

But, nevertheless, Liverpool could strike gold by choosing to spend something in the stadium of 100 million pounds sterling on one of Gordon or Roddrygo and instead of spending a more clever silhouette on Fofana, young and talented and hungry to prove himself.

It would be a better long -term matter, and which would see Liverpool enjoying the fruits of their work which will still have progressed forward in one of the most dreaded players in Europe.