Liverpool are now \u2018favourites\u2019 to land former Man City striker Julian Alvarez from Atletico Madrid next summer, according to reports.<\/p>\n
The Reds have made a perfect start to the new Premier League season with the defending champions gaining five wins from five to lead the standings by five points.<\/p>\n
Arne Slot won the Premier League title in his first campaign at Anfield and was rewarded with eight new signings, including the huge investments of Alexander Isak, Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The options Liverpool<\/strong><\/a> have in attack this season are now unrivalled with Slot having Isak, Mohamed Salah, Federico Chiesa, Cody Gakpo, Ekitike and\u00a0Rio Ngumoha to choose from.<\/p>\n But, after allowing Darwin Nunez and Luis Diaz to move on over the summer, and Chiesa\u2019s future being up in the air, they are still looking to improve their forward line ahead of 2026.<\/p>\n And Spanish website Fichajes insists that<\/a> Liverpool are the \u2018favourites to close the signing\u2019 of Atletico Madrid forward Alvarez, who scored 17 goals in La Liga last term.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Ranking \u00a3181.3m worth of summer signings by how desperate new clubs should be to debut them<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Barcelona \u2018dream of having his goal-scoring instinct and ability to decide matches\u2019 but \u2018the club that appears best positioned is\u00a0Liverpool\u2019.<\/p>\n The Premier League champions see Alvarez \u2018as the ideal player to bolster its attack for the immediate future\u2019 and the player\u2019s entourage \u2018doesn\u2019t rule out a multi-million-dollar transfer\u2019.<\/p>\n Barcelona have \u2018already begun exploratory contacts to test the Argentine\u2019 while Liverpool are \u2018preparing an aggressive strategy\u2019 with the Reds viewing the signing Alvarez is \u2018a unique opportunity and aren\u2019t willing to let a striker with such impact slip away.\u2019<\/p>\n Liverpool\u2019s start to the season is \u201cominous\u201d for their rivals, according to former Manchester United defender Gary Neville, after the Reds won their first five matches without playing at their best.<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<\/strong> Neville told Sky Sports: \u201cOminous in the fact that I think at times they\u2019re hanging on by the skin of the teeth.<\/p>\n \u201cNot necessarily [against Everton], but that they\u2019ve scored goals late on. And ominous in the fact that I don\u2019t think they\u2019re at their best.<\/p>\n \u201cOminous in the fact that I don\u2019t think they\u2019ve even settled on their best team yet and they\u2019ve not got the best team out on the pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n On their summer investment, Neville added: \u201cThe new players, Wirtz, Isak, you know, you\u2019ve got 250 million quid, a quarter of a billion pounds worth of players there that haven\u2019t even got to a point whereby they\u2019re either playing together, or at their best, or anything like in the rhythm and the talent and potential that we know they can produce.\u201d<\/p>\n
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