Liverpool's Right Wing Search Runs Deeper Than the Obvious Names
Yan Diomande's decision forces Liverpool into a fresh recruitment challenge, but the market still offers profiles that fit Andoni Iraola's tactical demands.
It’s been almost a week since David Ornstein ended what could have been Liverpool’s biggest move of the summer transfer window. Yan Diomande has chosen Paris Saint-Germain. Even a week after the news, it’s hard to accept this is Liverpool’s reality.
The Ivorian was the top target for Liverpool and for good reason. There aren’t many right-wingers of his quality in the market. Diomande was one of a kind and the perfect solution to Liverpool’s Mo Salah replacement problem.
Now the alternatives have been widely speculated. Bradley Barcola, Matias Fernandez-Pardo, Yankuba Minteh and Said El Mala.
Interestingly, only one of the above mentioned players (Minteh) is actually a right-winger, who is more comfortable with his left-foot and prefers to play on the right.
The rest have spent the majority of their careers playing on the left-wing. So, either Liverpool bring them in and use them on the right as a makeshift solution, until they find an actual right-winger (like Sadio Mane until Mo Salah came along) or they are going to have to actually sign a right-winger.
Which is why we’ve decided to take a look at the alternative list to the list of alternatives that are already out there.
Knowing how Liverpool operate, there are going to be more names on their list than publicly available, and a Victor Munoz type transfer could already be in the works.
