Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has named the five signings that the Reds need but isn\u2019t convinced a move for Alexander Isak is a good idea.<\/p>\n
The Reds have been very active in the summer transfer market with six new players coming in and seven players leaving permanently<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Liverpool<\/strong><\/a> already had a strong squad after winning the Premier League title at a canter last season in Arne Slot\u2019s first season at Anfield.<\/p>\n It looks likely that the Reds will sign at least three more players with Parma centre-back Giovanni Leoni to complete his medical at the club today<\/strong><\/a>, while Crystal Palace\u2019s Marc Guehi and Newcastle United\u2019s Isak remain top targets.<\/p>\n Speaking before the Leoni news was revealed on Thursday, Carragher said on the Stick To Football podcast<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cThey\u2019ve got to get at least one centre-back, maybe two.\u201d<\/p>\n Carragher added: \u201cLiverpool need two more attackers because they\u2019re going to sell Harvey Elliott and they\u2019re probably going to sell Federico Chiesa.\u201d<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Mailbox: Alexander Isak told \u2018you signed a contract my dude\u2019 as buy-out clauses mooted<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n As previously revealed, Carragher would not spend \u00a3150m on Isak and would maybe spend it on another player who could play second fiddle to Hugo Ekitike.<\/p>\n The Liverpool legend continued: \u201cIt [a forward signing] could be another player. I\u2019m not fully invested in breaking the bank for Isak. It\u2019s not about him as a player, I do worry about how robust he is to play twice a week for Liverpool.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you break the British transfer record for a player, he has to play virtually every game. He only doesn\u2019t play when he\u2019s injured.<\/p>\n \u201cEkitike, who Liverpool think is going to be the next Isak, would then have to be an understudy but I think he\u2019s too good and too expensive to be an understudy. You\u2019re only going to play when he\u2019s injured<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not like Ekitike will have a year to learn the ropes and then become first-choice \u2013 Isak will still be there as your centre forward next year. For me, it\u2019s been done the wrong way around.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen he [Isak] costs that much money there will also be a pressure on the manager to say, \u2018He\u2019s my guy\u2019 and play him. I just feel a little bit for the lad [Ekitike] who was bought for \u00a380m thinking he was going to be the next big thing.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<\/strong> Liverpool play the first match of the Premier League season on Friday evening against Bournemouth and Slot is satisfied with his options ahead of the opener.<\/p>\n Slot told a pre-match press conference: \u201cWe\u2019re as ready as we can be, we have lost 3\/4 starters and Gravenberch can\u2019t play this week, so if you exclude the keeper 5 of 10 outfield positions are different. Quality on the ball I am happy but 8\/10 times off the ball is good but the aim at this club is 10\/10 times.<\/p>\n \u201cSo still fine tuning. Against Bilbao I was pleased with the defensive performance, no chances in open play but conceded two set pieces.<\/p>\n \u201cAgainst Palace, the main chances we conceded was when we lost the ball ourselves. Still to improve, which is normal, let alone if we have not lost a few starters. We have brought in 4 new ones, so it is normal to have some adaptation but we are definitely ready.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has named the five signings that the Reds need but isn\u2019t convinced a move…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[3678,9655,86063,215,50,220,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-146078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-alexander-isak","9":"tag-home-page","10":"tag-jamie-carragher","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-premier-league","14":"tag-soccer","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115029250095705062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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