Here is your Liverpool morning digest for Tuesday, March 29.
Liverpool tipped to sign ‘world class’ replacements for trio
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has been tipped to sign a 'world-class' replacement if one of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane or Roberto Firmino is to leave Anfield in the summer.
All three are currently in the final 18 months of their contracts, which expire in 2023. While negotiations over a new deal for Mohamed Salah are ongoing, an agreement is yet to be reached.
Diogo Jota is starting to cement a starting spot following his arrival from Wolves in 2020. New signing Luis Diaz also has incredible potential.
Should one of the famous front three depart at the end of the season, or next summer, former Leeds United goalkeeper Paddy Kenny expects Klopp to splash the cash on a quality replacement that could form the future of the club's attack alongside Jota and Diaz.
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Barcelona face carnage behind Mohamed Salah reality
Barcelona are back to being linked with the very best players in football and money is now no object again - or at least that is the narrative that is being pushed out, writes Dave Powell.
Liverpool's contract stalemate that still exists with Mohamed Salah has only served to add fuel to the fire and to claim that the Egyptian is a target for the Spanish giants. And Erling Haaland, a player who a club with healthy financials such as Liverpool would likely baulk at the cost, is also being mentioned as someone ready to head to the Nou Camp, so too Bayern Munich's talismanic Robert Lewandowski.
But there is a reality that exists behind the headlines, one where Barcelona have to deal in real money and not Monopoly money, a reality that involves having to actually confront the financial carnage that arrived at the Nou Camp when the pandemic hit, one that saw their financial recklessness of some years actually come home to roost.
The days of simply strong-arming teams just because they are Barcelona have passed, at least for now. Philippe Coutinho's £142m move to the Nou Camp from Liverpool was a sign of all that was wrong with their excess and lack of strategy, where they paid well over the odds for a player and allowed their European rivals to use that money to actually become far better than them. Four years later and Coutinho's Barcelona dream became a nightmare and he is attempting to rebuild himself at Aston Villa.
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