Liverpool is preparing for a summer in which it needs to find a successor for Mohamed Salah, and the first name on the list is a Monaco player - Maghnes Akliouche. The French teenager has an expensive price tag, but also nightmare competition: PSG is in the game too.

Akliouche this season delivers the numbers everyone's looking for - 7 goals and 11 assists in 41 appearances. He plays naturally on the right wing, but can be a second striker, attacking midfielder and a number ten. Monaco wants around 50 million euros, and the move from Monte Carlo this summer is considered „almost certain." Liverpool, according to sources, is prepared to pay that sum.

For the „Reds," Akliouche is the cheaper option compared with the other names on the list - Xan Diomande from RB Leipzig and Bradley Barcola from PSG. Younger, faster and more multifunctional - meaning a better fit for Arne Slot's system.

But Liverpool doesn't want to settle for one signing. At the same time talks are being held for Lamine Camara, the Senegalese midfielder at Monaco, considered a possible replacement for Curtis Jones and Alexis Mac Allister - both with a question mark over them next season. Camara attracts scouts with passes in depth, but also with defensive contribution - among the best players in Ligue 1 by intercepted balls per game.

Monaco bought Camara from Metz for 15 million euros in 2024, and is now asking for double that. Newcastle is also asking around about him, but the Champions League - or rather its absence at „St James' Park" next season - could swing the decision toward Anfield.

A double hit on Monaco sounds ambitious. The question is whether Liverpool will have 80+ million euros ready just for an attempt at Monte Carlo, and whether Slot will risk building the new left side of the game over the summer on two twenty-year-olds who still have to prove they can carry the weight of the red.