Report: Liverpool in "daily contact" with Salah replacement seen as future of right wing

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While the 33-year-old’s ill-considered interview with the open press on Saturday has not made things easy, Liverpool will have already been assessing how best to pivot when he does leave the club. Liverpool view Yan Diomande as the future at right wing amid Salah speculation According to a report from TEAMtalk transfer insider Fraser Fletcher, Liverpool are in “negotiations with the representatives of RB Leipzig’s 19-year-old sensation Yan Diomande.” The teenager has earned rave reviews this season for his form in Germany and Liverpool have noticed.

Considering Liverpool paid £78m to sign Hugo Ekitike, it’s reasonable to suggest they will not sanction such a large fee for Diomande even if he already has seven goals and four assists this season. Many online have criticised Liverpool’s decision to sign Florian Wirtz, citing the Bundesliga as an inferior division as the reason for why he has so far failed to translate his goalscoring and assisting to the Premier League.

This season, he has just four assists and no goals. For one, it completely ignores the fact that Ekitike, Liverpool’s top goalscorer this season, arrived from the Bundesliga as well.