Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has urged the club not to sign Paris Saint-Germain winger Bradley Barcola. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
Advising the Reds to focus on finding a direct replacement for Mohamed Salah, Carragher warned that spending over £100 million on another left-sided forward makes little sense given the current squad composition at Anfield.
Jamie added that the arrival of an expensive player like Barcola would hinder the development pathway of 17-year-old talent Ngumoha.
His words, “He’s a great player, there’s no doubt about that – I’d love to get Barcola at Liverpool. But he’s a left winger for me.
Liverpool’s big thing that stands out like a sore thumb right now is replacing Mo Salah, a right winger. And I don’t think Liverpool have got anybody really in the squad who looks fully comfortable playing right wing.
They probably have at least four players in the squad before Barcola joins, if he joins, who could play on the left-hand side comfortably.
But if you’re saying to me, do I want Barcola to come and Liverpool are going to sign a right winger as well? I’ll be absolutely delighted because players would have to move on. Of course they would.
But right now, I felt this summer would be about replacing Mo Salah. Barcola doesn’t replace Mo Salah.
Rio’s a young lad, he’s really good. I think he’s going to kick on from where he did last season. But that is a point: you’re buying a really young player for a lot of money in Barcola, who’s better than Rio Ngumoha right now.
But you think eventually in the next year or two, Rio would want to be playing week in, week out for Liverpool. And that’s up to him to prove it.
So when you pay that type of money for a young player in his position, it does leave you scratching your head a little bit. There’s talk that Rio Ngumoha could play on the right and get some minutes there. As a young player, that’s fine, playing on both sides. But I think his position is the left wing now.
But if they go out and get a player for the right wing, bring Barcola in and then sell a couple of the wide players that they have on the books right now, I think that’d be fantastic.”
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