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Liverpool could unleash Alexander Isak with subtle change - but there's a problem

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But Isak only has one goal to his name - in the Carabao Cup against Southampton - and Wirtz is yet to find the net for the first time.The team's form has suffered, too, with the 3-0 loss to Manchester City before the international break leaving Liverpool in eighth place in the Premier League and eight points behind league leaders Arsenal.When the players return, Slot's biggest challenge will be to find a way of getting the best from these three lucrative summer additions.And speaking to Snabbare, Yorke suggested that Isak and Ekitike could work in tandem, but that Liverpool would be left with a £116m problem."You have got to create a healthy atmosphere around the place," he said. I was coming to challenge him for his position at first because I was the new signing, the new kid on the block, but he accepted that challenge.



He didn’t accept that I was a better player than him. He didn’t because he trusted his ability.

That’s the second thing."On the flip side, I was the expensive new signing but that didn’t guarantee me anything. I think the gaffer got lucky because I wasn’t really a nine.