Jamie Carragher says Liverpool should make a signing and then change £29.5m player's position

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Liverpool are expected to undergo another squad overhaul during the 2026 summer transfer window.Andy Robertson and Mohamed Salah are leaving as free agents after 2025/26, while Federico Chiesa could be on the move as well.Said exits will leave Liverpool very short on right-wing options, but Jamie Carragher is of the opinion that Jeremie Frimpong needs to stop being used at right-back and instead act as a wide option next term. Who should Slot start up front against Crystal Palace? 🤔 Credit: James Gill/Danehouse/Michael Driver/MI News/NurPhoto/Getty Images Liverpool told to use Jeremie Frimpong as backup wingerSpeaking to the Liverpool Echo, Carragher was commenting on the signings Liverpool need to make in the upcoming transfer window.A replacement for Salah was obviously mooted, while despite having three options in that position already – Frimpong, Conor Bradley and Joe Gomez – the ex-Red says his former team should sign a right-back and have Bradley, not the Dutchman, competing for that role.The former Bayer Leverkusen man, on the other hand, should be used as the back-up to whichever right-sided winger is signed in the summer.He said: “Liverpool need a right-back, they have fudged a few things there, they gave Conor Bradley his chance, he got another injury.“Jeremie Frimpong has done all right actually.

I think he has done OK. But for me, I think Frimpong should be the back-up right-winger to the one that we buy in the summer.

And I think Conor Bradley can fight with a new right-back that comes in.” Are Liverpool making the right call by sticking with Arne Slot? 🤔 What does he need to do to get the fans and players back on side?Credit: Stuart Franklin/UEFA/Getty Images The 25-year-old has played a few games on the wing already this season, but the majority of his outings (22) have come at right-back.That is perhaps somewhat surprising given Frimpong was never a natural full-back and enjoyed most of his success at Leverkusen, from whom Liverpool signed him for £29.5m, when used as a wing-back in a five.Will Liverpool switch to a three/five-man defence next season? It seems unlikely, even if it would accommodate a lot of their players.But with a move for Yan Diomande planned, it would not make sense to spend all that money on a winger, then use a formation he doesn’t fit in properly.At present, Liverpool are not strongly linked with a new right-back, so it remains to be seen if Carragher will get his wish of fresh legs in the back four.Join Our NewsletterReceive a digest of our best Liverpool content each week direct to your mailbox