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Is it more beneficial to rely upon one uber-prolific player for goals – see Liverpool and Mo Salah – or to spread those goals around more evenly without a particularly reliable finisher in the ranks?

In truth, there is no 100 per cent answer to such a question.

While Mo Salah fires Liverpool to the verge of a second Premier League title – his potentially Golden Boot-securing tally of 27 is more than double Luis Diaz, coming in second with 11 – previous champions have secured English football’s biggest prize with a more collaborative approach to goalscoring.

Take the Manchester City side of 2021/22.

Post-Sergio Aguero and pre-Erling Haaland.

Man City’s leading Premier League marksman, that season, was Kevin de Bruyne with 15.

The year before that, Ilkay Gundogan [13] and Raheem Sterling [10] were the only City players in double figures as another title was sealed.

After Mo Salah signed a new two-year deal at Anfield this month, Liverpool should have themselves a potential 30-goal-a-season attacker until the summer of 2027.

If Salah is injured, suspended, away on AFCON duty or he begins to decline, do Liverpool have a De Bruyne or a Gundogan-style figure capable of breaking into double figures from midfield?

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Carragher wants Frankfurt striker Hugo Ekitike signed this summer; The £85 million-rated Frenchman headlining six new additions.

But the 2005 Champions League winner also feels that Liverpool need an upgrade on Dominik Szoboszlai if they are to ascend to the next level under Arne Slot.

For all the Hungarian’s fierce work rate and his seemingly boundless energy reserves, Szoboszlai only has five Premier League goals from 25 starts.

Ditto Orkun Kokcu, the number ten-turned-playmaker who won the Eredivisie title under Arne Slot before moving to Benfica.

The player who best fits Carragher’s description – of those currently linked with Liverpool – is perhaps Xavi Simons of RB Leipzig.
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