Pop Liverpool would mend transfer links with Dominik Szoboszlai in an ideal window of opportunity, completing three more deals in total to build a truly competitive squad

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If Liverpool fans needed anything to get through the midweek slump, it was delivered yesterday in the form of additional transfer storyline.

After a few weeks of dabbling with the same few names and very little actual updates on them, a new candidate has them

That’s how it should be. Indeed,

Szoboszlai would be part of the perfect transfer window for Liverpool as the club have already signed Alexis Mac Allister. The Hungarian is an excellent stylistic companion to former priority target Mason Mount, has completed Red Bull school and looks set for one of Jürgen Klopp’s new double-advancing number eight roles.

We have previously written that a more specialized defensive presence would be needed to create an ideal transfer window for Liverpool.

But at Szoboszlai, Klopp would have a number eight ready to do more than his fair share of the dirty work. Equally, Mac Allister is no stranger to that side of the game, having in fact played before as a number six.

If the pair were for Fabinho, they would give enough protection that would allow the Reds to delay a decision in that part of the pitch for at least another season.

Even with two such clever additions, Liverpool would still need a third new midfielder. But with Szoboszlai and Mac Allister already quality holders, the next one could go out the door with less pressure and more emphasis on potential.

Here the most famous names are back in the limelight, with the club choosing between Khéphren Thuram, Gabri Veiga and Ryan Gravenberch.

Finally, Liverpool must not neglect defense and in the ideal summer, the club would forestall a potential problem by signing a young new centre-back with plenty of potential.

A much-cited name is Micky van de Ven and he seems to fit the bill, although it looks like there will be a contest

These three deals would total an outlay of $138m (£109m/€126m), on top of what has already been spent on Mac Allister.

This is clearly a very important transfer window for FSG, especially as no major departures are planned, but there is consensus that a rebuild is needed. Real quality is hard to find cheaper.

It remains to be seen how far Liverpool are willing to go. But with this latest Szoboszlai connection, the perfect transfer window has been open.

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But while Minamino won the Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup during his two-and-a-half-year spell at Anfield, he’s rarely managed to replicate such electric form for Liverpool.

Sold to AS Monaco for £15.5m last summer, it has been jovially hinted more than once that perhaps the Reds should set their sights on the big Norwegian boy for Salzburg.
Erling Haaland was equally hypnotic for the Austrians against Liverpool.

Although injury restricted him from the bench at Anfield, he still came on in the second half to help briefly turn the tide and score Salzburg’s equaliser.

That goal was one of an incredible eight in the minnows’ Champions League group stage, with the striker netting an impressive 28 goals in just 22 games in the first half of the season before being sold to Borussia Dortmund for €20m. in the same month. like Minamino’s Anfield switch.

He was on the road at the same time as the Japan international last summer, joining Manchester City for £51.2m after activating his release clause. Now, 12 months later, he has won the treble, scoring an impressive 52 goals in 53 games in his first season in England.

“Even when he was very young, younger than now, you could see that he was potentially crazy,” Klopp said last October when he recalled his team’s first meeting with Haaland.

“I don’t think he started against us at Anfield, I think he got injured and came on.

“But we were already busy enough thinking about him, I remember that. How can you turn it off, how can you turn it off. He still scored.”

Of course you don’t have to be a genius to see that Haaland was destined for the top. But Klopp would reveal that despite signing Minamino in January 2020, they had no chance of carrying the Norwegian at all times for an often overlooked reason.
“Dortmund needed a striker,” he said in February 2020.

“Everyone blames Man United for not taking him, but we wouldn’t have taken him. We couldn’t have taken him.

It’s as simple as that.”
“He wanted a top-level team with an open space as soon as possible… Borussia Dortmund. That’s the timing.

“I hope you know how much I love and respect the people of Dortmund, but it wasn’t that they took a perfect approach and did this and that, it was more that they were there, had space, number nine…

‘Here we are Go, you are 19, you want to play the Champions League, the top tier of the Bundesliga, so do it.

“Nobody else had a chance, I’m pretty sure, no matter what they say.”
Considering Liverpool were on course to win the Premier League title this season and Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane were an untouchable trio all at the peak of their powers, then Klopp is right. When it came to Haaland’s move to City, his wage demands ensured the Reds were priceless.

Of course, three and a half years ago against Liverpool, a few other Salzburg players also caught the eye.

If you take a look at the squad list for both games, you’ll see the names of Patson Daka, Enock Mwepu, Hwang Hee-Chan, Rasmus Kristensen and Maximillian Wober, all of whom joined the Premier League in previous years . , although none were as successful as Haaland.

Meanwhile, you’ll also spot another name familiar with the Reds’ latest transfer target: Dominik Szoboszlai.

The 18-year-old Hungarian started his game at Anfield on the cross against Minamino on the left and secured a 4-3 victory for Liverpool.

But unlike the Japan international and Haaland, he failed to make a name for himself in the lightweight team.

WhoScored’s player rating of 6.1 was his lowest that night, as he fired one shot on goal, completed 25 of his 37 passes (68% pass accuracy), completed none of his attempts of dribbling, he has not won any of his aerial duels and has been dispossessed five times, more than any other player on the pitch. Perhaps it came as no surprise when he was dropped in the 71st minute, just after Salah restored Liverpool’s lead.

In Austria, his WhoScored rating would have been even worse, as he was awarded a 5.7, one of only two players to register under six, as this time he was stationed on the left side of a midfield runner.

Although his passing would improve by completing 40 of his 46 pass attempts (87% accuracy), he played no key passes, made no attempt to dribble, was dribbled past four times, won none of his tackles, and was expropriated three times.

At that point, aged 19, he completed the full 90 minutes on that occasion.

In fact, it doesn’t necessarily come as a shock that Szoboszlai battled the European champions, who won both the world and England titles in the weeks and months that followed.

He was just a kid and competed against Jordan H

As a result, while Minamino and Haaland left in January 2020,

Szoboszlai stayed on for another 12 months and emerged as Salzburg’s star player in their absence.