Liverpool might have just secured Premier League glory but many fans are already looking to next season, and how the Reds can defend their title as well as improve on their Champions League showing.
Arne Slot’s men have been by far and away the best team in England this term, but the team is not without its issues, and the club is expected to sign several players during the summer transfer window.
Slot’s only outfield signing remains Federico Chiesa, who has appeared in just four of Liverpool’s 34 league games so far this season; none of those appearances have come from the start, so the title success has effectively been achieved with the team that Jurgen Klopp left behind.
This summer, though, Liverpool could sign a handful of players, with a new right-back, a new left-back, a new center-back and a new striker all understood to be on the agenda.
The anticipated sale of Darwin Nunez will help to raise funds for a new striker, with Liverpool expecting there to be a strong market for the Uruguayan after rejecting approaches from clubs in Saudi Arabia during the winter window.
One of the offers, from Al-Hilal, was reported to have been worth £70 million ($93 million), and if the club can command a similar fee this summer, it could go some way to ensuring the Reds can replace Nunez with a top-class striker.
Kane, Isak or Alvarez?
Harry Kane, Alexander Isak and Julian Alvarez have all been linked with Liverpool with varying degrees of believability in recent times. Calling Kane the worst option of the trio feels wrong, considering his prolific goal-scoring record across his time at Tottenham and Bayern Munich, but his age counts against him.
At 31 years old, he is six years older than both Isak and Alvarez, so one suspects he has fewer years left at the top level than the other two players. His resale value would be considerably lower, and considering his current deal at Bayern is due to expire in 2027, he would not exactly be cheap to sign in the first place.
He is more prolific than Isak and Alvarez, of that there is no doubt, but Liverpool tends to sign players who are in their early to mid-20s and signing Kane for a big fee just wouldn’t feel right.
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In truth, it’s a toss-up between Isak and Alvarez as to who would be the better signing for Liverpool, as both men are exceptional strikers who have shown over several years that they have what it takes to lead the line for big clubs at the highest level.
Alvarez was an important player for Manchester City for two seasons, and had he had anybody other than Erling Haaland for competition, he might well have still been there as Pep Guardiola’s first-choice striker. The all-action Argentinian is the main man at Atletico Madrid now, where he has scored 27 times in 50 appearances.
Isak, meanwhile, has scored 61 times in 106 games for Newcastle, and his goal-to-game ratio has improved with each season that he has been with the Magpies, suggesting that the best might still be to come from the Sweden international. He would likely cost significantly more than Alvarez, and that could be decisive.
