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But no matter.

In Jeremie Frimpong - the player who looks for all the world as though he will become Alexander-Arnold’s replacement at Liverpool - the Reds have identified an exciting signing who ticks almost as many boxes as Alexander-Arnold plays glorious raking long passes.

We’ll start on the field.



He’s up, he’s down, he’s attacking, he’s defending, he’s scoring and he’s assisting, and he’s doing it all at what seems like 100 miles an hour.

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Because whereas his likely predecessor’s calling card was his creativity, for Frimpong it is his raw speed which marks him out from the rest, and provides Liverpool’s data team with the much longed-for X factor they seek in a new signing.

Those sceptical of the move may point to the fact that all of Frimpong’s most effective football has come in the right wing-back position in Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen shape, but at Liverpool they’ll have no doubt that the 24-year-old can transfer his talents to a back four easily enough, partly because he’s already done it with Manchester City’s youth sides, in senior football with Celtic and for his national team.

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As a right-back, Frimpong has much more in common with the man he will be competing for a shirt with, Conor Bradley, than either has with Alexander-Arnold, with both extremely quick, both good at progressing the ball from deep and both able to overlap down the right hand side.

What’s more, Frimpong will also offer the ability to cover for Mo Salah either late in games or when he’s at the Africa Cup of Nations come December and January, something that probably won’t be seen from Bradley who in turn offers a bit more strength defensively.

Far from seeing this as a selection problem, Arne Slot is likely to welcome the fact that he’ll have two footballers with similar but different skillsets that he can rotate in the right-back position, even though he is going to have to find a solution for the creativity he’s lost in Alexander-Arnold - something that’s likely to be a team burden and not an individual one.

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Popular with players and staff at every club he’s been at, Frimpong is a devout Christian who would occasionally attend mass in Glasgow while playing for Celtic, where he still regularly interacts with the club’s fans on social media.

What’s more, and in an eerie similarity with Alexander-Arnold, he started his own foundation, The Pathways Project, last year aimed at helping young footballers work out where to turn next should they fail to make the grade as a professional

Such things don’t really exist, but as they seek to move on from their vice-captain and take their right-back position in a new direction, Frimpong could move Liverpool there in the manner he does most things
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