Despite completing one of the most incredible sources of spending in Premier League history, we are delighted to see behind the summer transfer window.
Alexander Isaac Saga hit everyone involved, but Anfield’s sports director Richard Hughes ultimately won a tug of war, bringing the striker to Newcastle United’s Liverpool on a record £125 million contract.
We concluded our incredible spending transfer window. Liverpool had already broken forward records early in the summer with Florian Wiltz from Bayer Leverkusen added for £116 million.
And while the contract with Crystal Palace centre back Mark Ngwehi has collapsed, slots will feel his side has enough to defend their Premier League title and push more silverware.
After all, with such incredible firepower, it actually takes Hercules’ effort to knock red from their perches.
Meet the new Liverpool striker
Some consider Liverpool’s record-breaking ISAK signature to be an extra. The Anfield side eventually welcomed Hugo Ekitique for £79 million in July.
It was important that Liverpool landed a new scorer this summer and decided to win cash to Darwin Nunes a few months ago.
At Ekitike, Liverpool has the top talent who scored three goals from the opening of four matches under the wing of the slot. ISAK does not need to be referred. The former Newcastle Talisman scored 27 goals last season, and is widely regarded as one of Europe’s most dangerous strikers.
And he’s playing with red now. His prolific contributions were phenomenal as Mohamed Sara actually dragged Liverpool to the title last season, but now he has more evenly spreading top-level capabilities to the forefront, and Isaac has what he needs to become a new talisman.
However, there is a man who, often overlooked in such conversations, actually shows the qualities that the Egyptians can appear as Sarah in a new version of Liverpool as they enter the Twilight of his career at Merseyside.
Liverpool’s new Mohamed Sarah
Sarah’s journey since joining Rome for £34 million in 2017 was like a success story of lightning bolts in a bottle. He broke the score record in a 38-game Premier League season in his first term under Jurgen Klopp’s management, before winning the Premier League and Champions League.
The highest scorer of all time in Liverpool’s Premier League, Sarah scored 34 goals in all competitions last season and supplied 23 assists.
But maybe we’re too fast to forget Cody Gakupo as a fan base? The versatile Dutch scored £35 million from PSV Eindhoven after a successful 2022 World Cup in Qatar, scoring 42 goals in 132 matches and earning 19 assists.
Klopp perceived Gakpo’s dynamism as a exploiting various berths, but slot tweaked the role of his fellow countrymen and restricted him to more left-handed deployments.
The Boa won the Premier League last season, with Gakupo instrumental to win 18 goals and seven assists in all competitions.
While £120K per week may not reach the same prolific heights as a mild superstar like Sarah, he has been praised in the past for his “special skill set” by former Klopp assistant manager Pep Rejunders.
The best top scorer ever | ||
|---|---|---|
player | App | the goal |
Alan Shearer | 441 | 260 |
Harry Kane | 320 | 213 |
Wayne Rooney | 491 | 208 |
Mohamed is wrong | 304 | 187 |
Andy Cole | 414 | 187 |
Statistics via Premier League | ||
Of course, Sarah is one of the best scorers in Premier League history and is the definitive poster boy of the club’s success in the last decade. Although Gakupo may not achieve such heights, he shows himself that he has the ability to emulate superstars in terms of the distribution of output.
And is the 26-year-old, who already set two goals in this semester Premier League, heading for a more balanced take on the offensive game Sarah has played at Aprem over the years at Liverpool?
Of course, hitting the goal and creating a bulging net has been a long time with gakpo’s bread and butter.
In fact, the data-driven platform FBREF has calculated the numbers and revealed that Gakpo, ranked in the top 5% of attacking midfielders and wingers in last season’s Premier League, scored per 90 people, highlighting the naturally born sharpness within the box.
It shows another reason why the goalscoring wideman proves to be the perfect Sarah replacement. If he maintains his current rate, he achieves long-term, prolific forms on top flights in English and is rarely protected as a centre forward.
Gakupo’s performance at Liverpool last season in the Champions League has actually listed him as one of Sarah’s most statistically similar players.
When the slot machines went from strength to strength throughout the course of the 2024/25 campaign, Gakupo cemented himself as one of Liverpool’s most important players.
Pundit Peter Crouch says the Dutch star “has leveled up” under the tactical guidance of his fellow-borne fellow, giving the impression that his start to the new season is the best form of Gakupo.