Liverpool in contract talks with ‘one of the best LWs in the world’

In opposition to Arsenal, Liverpool regarded a bit nearer to title challengers than they’ve in most video games this season, exhibiting grit and dedication to cease the Premier League’s successful streak of prime groups.

In the meantime, Arne Slott confirmed robust tactical acumen for final yr’s title, negating the hosts’ attacking risk and decreasing the hosts’ xG whole to 0.57 all through the evening.

There may be nonetheless no query that defensive reinforcements can be important this yr, maybe this month, as FSG look so as to add younger prospects to their Anfield squad whereas additionally maintaining a tally of greater fish.

However Liverpool additionally want a brand new large ahead. The choice to not exchange Luis Diaz after he was offered to Bayern Munich in August has hampered the Reds, with sporting director Richard Hughes able to signal a brand new star.

Liverpool to signal left winger

Antoine Semenyo has been one of the vital in-form and in-demand wingers within the Premier League this season, scoring 10 targets and offering three assists for Bournemouth.

Regardless of curiosity from Liverpool and a name from Hughes in November, he signed for Manchester Metropolis this week.

It is stunning that the two-faced winger has proven so lots of the abilities that Slott wants on the Pink Military’s entrance line. However maybe an excellent greater prize awaits.

Liverpool are interested by signing Paris Saint-Germain winger Bradley Barcola and are in preliminary talks with the Ligue 1 champions to signal him this month, in accordance with sources in Spain.

Barcola, 23, is engaged in long-term contract negotiations along with his employers, and PSG are assured they will tie Barcola to a long-term deal.

Why Bradley Barcola may very well be the brand new Salah

It is solely been two and a half years since Barcola joined PSG from divisional rivals Lyon as an untested participant, however he has gone from power to power since his arrival, scoring 31 targets and offering 34 assists in 126 video games throughout all competitions.

Hailed by journalist Santi Irregui as a key a part of PSG’s “world-class” entrance line, Barcola scored 21 targets and assisted in every of their historic quintuplets final season, flashing his fast footwork and sharp playmaking abilities to enrich his insatiable starvation for targets.

Nevertheless, he is greater than only a talent finisher. In response to data-driven platform FBref, Les Bleus’ expertise ranks within the prime 6% of gamers by place in Europe’s prime 5 leagues for cross completion charge, prime 16% for progressive carries and prime 15% for shot creation actions per 90 over the previous yr.

This big selection of qualities, underlying his unimaginable means to attain and help within the remaining third, might even see Barcola step into the function of Liverpool’s new model of Mohamed Salah, with the 33-year-old’s decline growing the necessity for a brand new winger.

Barcola would probably be the proper addition if Semenyo is off the playing cards. He can ship on the most important stage in the identical approach that Salah has captivated everybody at Liverpool for a few years.

Nevertheless, Salah has definitely not been excellent this yr, which is why FSG is pushing Barcola. FBref named the aforementioned Diaz as one in every of his most comparable gamers, additional highlighting the similarities with Salah in his athletic prime.

Barcola, then again, is quickly rising and getting stronger with every season. He nonetheless has room to develop, however that did not cease analyst Ben Mattinson from declaring him “probably the greatest left wingers in Europe”.

It stays to be seen whether or not Salah performed his remaining sport for Liverpool, or whether or not he’ll sit out the remainder of the marketing campaign or really fulfill the rest of his £400,000-a-week contract.

However the plain fact is that Salah is nearing the twilight of his illustrious profession, and signing Barcola would give Slott a brand new talisman, bodily and rugged, with indicators of medical superiority to rival the king of Egypt.