{"id":266466,"date":"2025-07-16T11:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266466\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:23:11","slug":"liverpool-considered-5-other-strikers-marcus-rashford-ruled-out-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266466\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool ‘considered’ 5 other strikers – Marcus Rashford ruled out – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool are set on signing Alexander Isak if a \u00a3130 million deal is possible, but five other strikers were considered as alternatives \u2013 including Marcus Rashford.<\/b><\/p>\n

Rashford was \u201cfloated\u201d as a potential target during meetings between Liverpool\u2019s transfer staff, but \u201cnothing progressed beyond that\u201d and \u201cthere is little potential for that to be resurrected.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is according to the Mail<\/a>\u2018s Dominic King, who has detailed the five alternatives considered before contact was made over a deal for Isak.<\/p>\n

While it is unclear if Liverpool will reach a breakthrough over the Newcastle<\/a> striker, it is clear that he is by far and away the leading candidate<\/a> and arguably the only elite centre-forward available.<\/p>\n

Talks between the likes of sporting director Richard Hughes<\/a> and chief scout Barry Hunter are claimed to have seen Aston Villa<\/a>\u2018s Ollie Watkins<\/b>, Brentford<\/a>\u2018s Yoane Wissa<\/b>, Napoli\u2019s Victor Osimhen<\/b> and Eintracht Frankfurt\u2019s Hugo Ekitike<\/b> discussed.<\/p>\n

\"MANCHESTER,<\/p>\n

While interest in Ekitike is well known and the Frenchman remains the fallback option if Isak cannot be signed, that Liverpool have considered Watkins and Wissa is intriguing.<\/p>\n

They were both among the five most prolific centre-forwards in the Premier League<\/a> last season, with Wissa scoring 19 and Watkins 16 to place them behind only Isak, Erling Haaland and Chris Wood as the top-scoring strikers.<\/p>\n

But they are clearly not within the top bracket that Liverpool will ultimately be aiming for as they look to replace Darwin Nunez<\/a> as their No. 9.<\/p>\n

Watkins will turn 30 in December while Wissa is 29 in two months\u2019 time, meaning there is less scope for improvement even if they joined a side competing among the very elite.<\/p>\n

The same applies to Rashford, who will be 28 in October and truthfully has shown little chance of reaching the world-class potential he showed when first breaking through at Man United<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Newcastle<\/p>\n

While the England international is expected to leave Old Trafford this summer that will not be to Liverpool, not least due to the rivalry between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

In reality, of those five strikers considered, Ekitike is the only viable alternative to Isak \u2013 and that explains Newcastle<\/a>\u2018s own interest in the 23-year-old.<\/p>\n

The names reported by King more so demonstrate why signing Isak would be of paramount importance to Liverpool this summer, with there a dearth of other world-class strikers who are considered attainable.<\/p>\n

While Newcastle<\/a> are publicly insistent that their No. 14 is not for sale and that their bid for Ekitike is with the intention of playing them together, BBC Sport<\/a>\u2018s Sami Mokbel reports a deal worth \u00a3130 million could \u201csuccessfully get Isak out of St James\u2019 Park.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool are set on signing Alexander Isak if a \u00a3130 million deal is possible, but five other strikers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,763,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-266466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-liverpool-fc","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114862660331719300","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}