Liverpool favourites to sign “world-class” £65m star

Arne Slot will certainly be underneath extra intense strain within the Liverpool sizzling seat if he can not flip round his facet’s disastrous Premier League kind after the worldwide break concludes.

Final season, the Merseyside giants romped dwelling to the title, with a bumper 25 wins secured, having additionally solely misplaced a meagre 4 video games all marketing campaign lengthy.

Now, nevertheless, it is a grim 5 defeats on the menu from 11 outings, with former Reds attacker Peter Crouch even stating that there have to be “some severe query marks” as as to if the ex-Feyenoord boss ought to stay within the Anfield publish for the long run, if the losses proceed to stack up.

He does have the January switch window on his facet to attempt to arrest this slide, although, as Liverpool prepares to splash the large bucks once more…

The place Liverpool might strengthen in 2026

The disappointing Reds are actually eight factors adrift of Arsenal on the high of the Premier League, which has led many pundits to state that the reigning champions are in a disaster in the mean time.

Nonetheless, uprooting to Anfield will likely be seen as a beautiful subsequent profession step for a lot of promising skills all over the world.

One goal consists of AZ Alkmaar star Kees Smit, as rumours persist that the £22.5m-rated midfielder is on their agenda.

Alongside Smit, Liverpool are additionally reportedly nonetheless eager on including Marc Guehi to their ranks in January, after a failed summer time transfer, as Crystal Palace brace for Liverpool to reignite a deal, regardless of their present bruised standing.

Palace are usually not the one Premier League membership that might be on the receiving finish of Liverpool making an attempt to spend huge to show round their dismal fortunes, nevertheless, with TEAMtalk revealing – through their sources – that Slot’s males are favourites to land AFC Bournemouth famous person Antoine Semenyo, regardless of intense curiosity additionally popping up from Tottenham Hotspur.

The report goes on to state {that a} £65m launch clause will likely be activated when the window opens, which has alerted each Liverpool and Thomas Frank’s outfit, with the Reds prepared to satisfy that value to win themselves an explosive, Premier League-proven ahead.

Liverpool desperately want some lethal firepower, having been burnt by offers for Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak in the summertime, as Slot and Co’s extreme spending – £415m to be actual – seems very rash.

Semenyo might properly provide up some much-needed leisure; subsequently, with the Ghanaian additionally happening as Slot’s new Luis Diaz if a deal is secured, who was a departure in the summertime, now overloaded with remorse.

How Semenyo compares to Diaz

Diaz leaving Liverpool has actually harm the Reds greater than they may have initially anticipated.

In fact, the lavish spending in the summertime with Isak and Wirtz coming via the door was meant to see within the begin of a new-look Liverpool assault, with Diaz discarded to Bayern Munich within the course of.

Sadly, with the aforementioned pair commonly fluffing their strains and the revitalised Colombian already sitting fairly on 11 targets and 5 assists from 17 video games in Bavaria, it does really feel as if Liverpool have dropped a clanger eliminating an attacker as soon as branded as “unpredictable” and onerous to include at his Premier League greatest by ex-Arsenal goalkeeper David Seaman.

Diaz blew cold and warm on English shores, therefore his exit and Seaman’s unpredictable evaluation, as 29 Premier League targets fell into his lap at Anfield. Semenyo is barely three wanting that quantity proper now for the Cherries, as one other gung-ho, direct expertise emerges that may wreak havoc on the peak of his powers.

Liverpool noticed first-hand how blistering their £65m goal might be at full pelt proper at first of the season when powering dwelling that high-energy equaliser, along with his Cherries teammate in Marcus Tavernier stating that he’s “unplayable” when working at his devastating greatest.

Fortunately, the targets and assists have adopted in abundance, away from simply merely bombing ahead with tempo to burn, with six targets and three assists in Premier League motion alone this marketing campaign, even leading to Chris Waddle’s claiming that he is at the moment “the perfect winger within the nation.”

The similarities do not simply cease with their comparable types, although, with each attacking stars in query additionally able to being adaptable and malleable when wanted, as seen in Semenyo swapping between left wing and proper wing duties commonly for Andoni Iraola’s males.

Diaz would additionally fortunately oblige on this regard at Anfield, with eight targets even coming his method from a centre-forward spot for his ex-employers.

Semenyo will, additional, hope he can replicate Diaz’s profession at Anfield much more intently in lifting a Premier League title down the road, previous the present stoop in kind.