Liverpool are set to have a surprise saviour this summer. A relegated star is in position.
Liverpool need a hero. To replace the last one, actually. Mohamed Salah is no longer a Red and it's absolutely necessary that they find a replacement.
Even if Salah's season was poor, he still put up six goals and six **** ists in the Premier League. Those aren't numbers that are easy to find - Yankuba Minteh, a proposed signing for the right flank, didn't match them.
But Liverpool are up against it. Yan Diomande has decided to pick Paris Saint-Germain as his next club, ignoring the Reds' interest.
It leaves a truly awful market to pick from, with remarkably few solid options. There's an elite class of player who are entirely out of reach, then a big drop-off to untested young players like Minteh.