Liverpool have just signed Mohamed Salah replacement without anyone realising

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When Mohamed Salah leaves for the Africa Cup of Nations in January and February, Liverpool will have to make do without his services.

He will likely miss back-to-back league games against Chelsea and Arsenal if Egypt advances to the tournament’s knockout rounds, though neither the Pharaohs nor Liverpool are guaranteed to get through the FA Cup fourth round or League Cup semifinals.

Mohamed Salah is expected to captain Egypt at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, therefore Liverpool will once again be without the forward in the new year

With the finals set to take place from January 13 to February 11 in Ivory Coast, the 31-year-old could miss at least five matches, with four coming in the Premier League, if the Pharaohs reached the final. Throw in progression in the FA Cup and League Cup, and such a total rises to eight games, with the possibility of replays in the former even ruling Salah out of a potential 10 outings.

salah missed six matches for his AFCON exploits in 2022 as he helped Egypt reach the final, only to lose on penalties to Sadio Mane’s Senegal.

While there is no guarantee of the Pharaohs again reaching the final, or Liverpool progressing to the FA Cup fourth round and League Cup semi-finals, he is in line to miss back-to-back league clashes with Chelsea and Arsenal if Egypt qualify for the knockout stages of the tournament.

During the last edition of AFCON in 2022, Diogo Jota, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Takumi Minamino, and Kaide Gordon would all start on the right in Salah’s absence. Yet while the Portuguese remains an option, the former Arsenal man has just left at the end of his contract, the Japanese was sold to AS Monaco last summer, and the teenager hasn’t played since February 2022 because of injury.

Last season, Harvey Elliott would also take up the mantle in the rare absence of the Egyptian. When AFCON takes place in Ivory Coast in January and February, you’d expect the England Under-21s international and Jota to share the burden of covering for Salah, though Luis Diaz is also an option. Should he be back in first team contention after a lengthy injury, Gordon too could come back into contention, though highly-rated youngster Ben Doak, a contender himself, has arguably usurped him on the waiting list.

It is partly because of Doak why Liverpool won’t look to sign a new forward this summer, despite Roberto Firmino’s own exit. Despite still being just 17, the Reds don’t want to block the path and progress of the teenage right-winger, and are arguably well-covered in attack with Darwin Nunez and Cody Gakpo completing Jurgen Klopp’s five-man senior quota alongside Salah, Jota, and Diaz.

Supporter pleas for a further forward, along with a new senior right-back, are likely to be ignored as a result, with a third midfield signing and a left-sided centre-back instead the current priorities at Anfield. Not boasting unlimited funds, Liverpool bosses ultimately have to choose their battles when it comes to which positions carry the greater need for strengthening in Klopp’s squad.

However, Liverpool have potentially just killed two birds with one stone courtesy of their latest midfield signing – £60m Dominik Szoboszlai.

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Liverpool have just signed Mohamed Salah replacement without anyone realising

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