Liverpool planning ahead! Reds earmark two Premier League attackers as transfer targets as Mohamed Salah's contract runs down

Liverpool have been scouting potential replacements for Salah and have earmarked Brentford's Bryan Mbeumo and Bournemouth's Antoine Semenyo as possible targets, according to Sky Sports. Mbeumo has impressed this season with eight goals in nine Premier League appearances and has "been monitored by Liverpool for some time". Semenyo has also emerged as an option and is well known to Liverpool's new sporting director Richard Hughes as he brought him to former club Bournemouth from Bristol City back in January 2023.

Replacing Salah will be an extraordinarily difficult task for Liverpool as the 32-year-old has been vital to the club's successes since joining from Roma in 2017. Eintracht Frankfurt forward Omar Marmoush has also been linked with a possible move to Liverpool, along with Dortmund star Karim Adeyemi. Salah is one of three key players into the last year of his contract at Anfield alongside Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold and manager Arne Slot has admitted the trio "could become a problem" for the Reds.

Mbeumo has netted eight Premier League goals this season from an xG of just 3.79, the biggest xG overperformance in the competition (+4.21).

Salah has continued to shine for Liverpool this season despite the uncertainty over his feature. The forward has six goals and five assists in nine Premier League outings and will hope to add to his tally next time out against Brighton.