Liverpool needs an even more competitive squad if it wants, as it has already announced, to go seriously for the four titles of the season. In the last attempt two were achieved, but the ‘jackpots’ of the Premier League and the Champions League escaped and this time, with Luis Díaz at the helm, they do not want to fail.
That is the firm decision of the owner and of Jürgen Klopp, who now, following Mohamed Salah’s three-year renewal, plan to break the market for the second time, sacrifice whoever has to sacrifice and even at the cost of breaking an old promise.
The Reds boss had said in the past that a £100m player at Liverpool would mean he would no longer have a job. But given that Liverpool are expected to make an outsized effort for Borussia Dortmund’s Jude Bellingham, which would even exceed that figure, the phrase will start to work once morest them. Kalvin Phillips, the jewel of Leeds United who chose Manchester City, has already escaped them. Another equal blow, not by chance.
The problem is that the sacrificed would be one of his most beloved players, none other than Roberto Firmino, the only one from the old trident who has not yet resolved his renewal (Salah stayed and Mané went to Bayern Munich).
The Brazilian, one of those closest to Díaz, has been losing ground, in a kind of tail-end of the countryman’s landing at Anfield, as Mané became a center forward to open space for him and the result was so good that ‘Bobby’, as he They call at the club, it was no longer an indisputable.
Although space was opened in 20 Premier games, it must be said that, due to injury or technical plan, it was disappearing in favor of younger attackers: first Diogo Jota (40 million pounds sterling) and Luis Díaz (45 million) and now nothing less than Benfica, Darwin Núñez, for whom just over 60 million pounds sterling were paid.
In this way Firmino seems to be on the ropes, almost forced to look for the exit as soon as possible. Bad news for Díaz, because it was his support and even the hairdresser they shared. We will have to see what final decision is made.
