Liverpool have been tipped to interchange Mohamed Salah with an excellent younger substitute presently going through uncertainty in Serie A.
The Reds are enduring a wildly disappointing season, sitting in midtable and out of each home cups as holders. To make issues worse, Liverpool face Actual Madrid within the last-16 of the Champions League – the Merseysiders’ bogey workforce underneath Jurgen Klopp.
Talismanic winger Mo Salah has did not ignite the facet both this season, following a bumper new deal in the summertime. The Egyptian King was in prolific kind final time period however has only one objective in his final eight video games – with rumours that he might be sacrificed in a rebuild (opens in new tab).
Now, one pundit has pointed in the direction of one other membership’s misfortune – and a report from TeamTalk (opens in new tab) has linked the Reds with Federico Chiesa.
“I believe he [Chiesa] will come to England in the summertime,” pundit Paul Robinson stated (opens in new tab) in an interview with Soccer Insider.
“Juventus won’t have Champions League soccer subsequent yr. Gamers like Chiesa will need to play within the Champions League. I believe it will likely be very troublesome for Juventus to maintain maintain of him.
“I don’t assume he would be the just one both. We’d see a number of Juventus gamers shifting to the Premier League in the summertime. Chiesa is an incredible participant. I’d not be stunned if a membership like Liverpool makes a bid for him in the summertime as a result of he’s bought so many nice attributes.”
The concept makes loads of sense on paper: Salah was signed from Serie A earlier than he turned world-class and if Liverpool might promote him, they might rake in funds to rebuild their squad – whereas shifting him off the wage invoice.
The concept would possibly solely be a pipedream, nonetheless, for followers. There’s little concrete curiosity within the participant from the Reds’ facet, whereas Chiesa is maybe Juventus’s greatest expertise and more likely to stay in Italy, regardless of the Previous Woman’s latest woes.
Chiesa is valued at €60 million by Transfermarkt (opens in new tab).
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In the meantime, Liverpool’s plan continues to be to swoop for Jude Bellingham over the summer season.
