Arsenal legend Paul Merson supposes Liverpool need to be gazing to indicator an additional centre-earlier in days gone by contorting around wrapping up Alexander Isak from Newcastle.
The Reds are gazing to lug in a cluster more players in days gone by the expire of the send domicile window on September 1 after wrapping up six so far this summertime season.
Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike, Jeremie Frimpong and also Milos Kerkez have already come wearing the door this summertime season wearing all four tinkering as Liverpool wasted the Urban Shield last on reenergizes to Crystal Palace at Wembley on Sunday.
Liverpool confront Bournemouth on Friday evening in the first Premier League match of the period and also Merson supposes they need to be obsessing on bringing in an additional brand name-new-fashioned centre-earlier and also not a prearrangement for Isak.
The Reds are on the verge of wrapping up Parma centre-earlier Giovanni Leoni, while they are in a similar way intrigued in Crystal Palace’s Marc Guehi to reinforce their protection.
Merson prompts Liverpool need to acquire Guehi or an additional centre-earlier in in days gone by they turn their attention to Newcastle striker Isak.
Merson oriented Heavens Sports: “There’s been a cluster of brouhaha bordering the opportunity prearrangement to indicator Isak, connoting they will prance to the title if they indicator the striker from Newcastle. I hear a cluster of world proverb that if Liverpool acquire Isak it’s arcade over in the Premier League. It’s ended up.
“I just don’t study them winsome the league as a inescapable expire result, Isak or not.
“If I was Liverpool, I’d be gazing a cluster more for a centre earlier than Isak. That has to be the top priority for Slot, whose main centre-earlier contingencies are Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate and also Joe Gomez.”
Mohamed Salah was vastly confidential versus Palace in the Urban Shield and also Merson supposes it was a “contorting functionality” from Liverpool’s pioneering star.
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Merson added: “It was a mild particle of a contorting functionality from Salah at Wembley. I don’t reckon I’ve heeded a player farces around that badly in days gone by in a football match.”
On Frimpong tinkering wearing Salah, Merson reoccured: “One point that could be arduous for him this period is tinkering in front of Jeremie Frimpong.
“Compared to Trent Alexander-Arnold, he’s a cluster more favor an assailing winger. Frimpong’s a nice player but he’s not a destroyer. He plays so far onward that he’s not a herbal defender. Trent wasn’t either but the really same point applies actually, I reckon Ibrahima Konate could be too introduced.
“There’s a coherent circumstance down that side of the peddle, even a cluster more so than last period.”
