Alan Shearer names Liverpool player who Arne Slot can't leave out right now - 'Good problems'

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Alan Shearer says Arne Slot can't drop Hugo Ekitike at the moment - despite Liverpool having another elite number nine option in Alexander Isak waiting for his first league start.

Both strikers arrived on Merseyside for big money this summer, and they are yet to take to the field at the same time.

It remains to be seen what the plan is and how often they will be deployed together, but Shearer says Ekitike is the man with the jersey right now.

"It’s not a bad option, is it?" Shearer said on NBC Sports.

"Having said that, at the minute, there’s no way I would, if I was Ekitike, there’s no way I’d be thinking I deserve to be left out this side with the form that I’m in, the goals that I’m scoring.

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Good problems to have, if you call them problems."

Federico Chiesa didn't even make the bench as Liverpool played Everton this weekend.

Hugo Ekitike celebrates putting Liverpool two goals ahead during the Merseyside derby against Everton at Anfield.

Liverpool.com says: Having two good number nines can only be a good thing for Arne Slot