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Charlotte Coates

Liverpool almost signed 'Europe's deadliest striker' as new Mohamed Salah plan emerges

Your Liverpool morning headlines for Tuesday, January 24.

Liverpool 'did their best' to sign Europe's deadliest striker but missed out after deleted tweet confusion

The summer 2014 transfer window is one Liverpool fans do not look back on too fondly.

Having narrowly missed out on the Premier League title in 2013/14 but qualified for the Champions League for the first time since 2009, FSG would sanction an £117m spending spree as Brendan Rodgers brought in nine new players.

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While some (emphasis on the some!) of that business is perhaps looked back on more fondly than it would have been prior to Jurgen Klopp’s transformational impact at Anfield, it is still a summer Liverpool headed into with Luis Suarez up front, yet finished with Rickie Lambert and Mario Balotelli in attack.

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Liverpool have Mohamed Salah plan up their sleeve that could help Darwin Nunez and Cody Gakpo

It’s been a difficult twelve months for Mohamed Salah and I think it is now starting to show.

Having endured heartbreak in the Africa Cup of Nations final and World Cup qualifiers with Egypt in the early stages of last year, he’s not been the same player for Liverpool since. Not on a consistent basis anyway.

He has seven goals in 19 Premier League matches this season, it’s his worst patch of form since he joined the club in the summer of 2017, without a doubt. We need Mo now, we need him to be a big player for us.

When teams set up against Liverpool, they are now insistent on stopping Salah. Now we have the option to mix it up in attack, we can start Darwin Nunez on the left and Cody Gakpo on the right and put Salah down the middle, where he has already shown this season he looks more of a threat at this stage of his career. Let teams try and handle that one.

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