11 Aug 2026 08:47:34
On YouTube Josh Williams has done a really good piece on why Liverpool have not replaced Mo Salah yet. He looked into out of the top 30 players who realistically is on the market and out of those select few analysed their stats to see who if any would fit the profile were after.
11 Aug 2026 09:15:49
Yes, mate, watched that. Josh looks into a lot of detail concerning players and gives lots of information that you wouldn't normally see.
11 Aug 2026 09:47:59
It is more than replacing Mo, that playing style doesn't exist at Liverpool now - now we have to develop another way of playing and the players to exploit it to its full potential.
11 Aug 2026 09:55:55
We replaced him last season with Wirtz and Isaak. You cannot find 1 player to match his G/A.
11 Aug 2026 10:08:41
I agree with you there, Fowler. We now have 2 strikers in Isak and, when he is back, Ekitike, who, along with Wirtz and, if we get Barcola, will have a team set up to have goals across the front line from our strikers and wide men delivering the ball compared to under Klopp, where we played wide men as forwards who cut in and scored with Salah & Mane, which I feel is moving towards the norm now.
11 Aug 2026 10:10:37
Well said, Camb and Fowler. From now on anyone who says the words 'replacing Mo' should put a pound in the swear jar.
He's irreplaceable and we just don't play that way anymore.
11 Aug 2026 13:03:16
Fully agree, Camb and Fowler. Trying to replace Salah, the legend, is a fool's errand. The guy is a unicorn in the way he performed for us. No player can replicate that, and the system he thrived in is no more at LFC. We have to get creative, as a result.
Same with Trent and the unique way he was deployed. That player doesn't exist anywhere on this planet with such a unique skill-set in a performing system that brought great success.
We have tried to replace his goals and assists with Eki & Isak, but with Eki still being a long way from getting back, we need a backup 9 to help Isak. This is why I want Gakpo to stay if a backup CF is not being signed.
11 Aug 2026 17:23:57
Agreed. We have our main goalscorer down the centre of the team now, so need providers more than anything down the sides, not the major goalscorer.