Liverpool have a Salah problem and he might just cost them the title
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When Alexander Isak was finally confirmed as a Liverpool player, many supporters from rival title challengers wrote off their team’s chances of toppling the champions this season there and then.
Even after seeing Liverpool make it four wins from four at Burnley, many may, however, be reconsidering such a position.
Having broken the British transfer record for one multi-faceted forward in Florian Wirtz and added one of Europe’s most exciting attackers in Hugo Ekitike to add to a title-winning, 86-goal strikeforce from last season, Liverpool appeared to be simply satirising the competition when they launched another record bid for Isak.
Did they even need him?
Yet, after Liverpool were so listless and unimaginative in attack at Burnley, before Mohamed Salah’s most fortunate of get-out-of-jail stoppage-time penalties maintained their winning start to the new campaign, Isak’s arrival is in fact out of necessity than frivolity.
Liverpool had looked lifeless before Mohamed Salah’s late intervention (Liverpool FC via Getty Images)
For all the myriad of talent in the forward department, what was glaring in the meek Burnley showing was the lack of a strike focal point.