Slot Talk: “We Need to Have One More Attacker at Least”

With lower than 24 hours earlier than the 2025-26 Premier League season kicks off, Newcastle celebrity Alexander Isak is on strike and Liverpool supervisor Arne Slot has admitted that even with Hugo Ekitike now on the books, his facet doesn’t simply wish to signal at the least yet another attacker—they should.

That’s as a result of after the gross sales of Darwin Nuñez and Luis Diaz and with the tragic demise of Diogo Jota earlier in the summertime, Liverpool have simply three established senior forwards, with Slot’s different choices standout 16-year-old Rio Ngumoha and midfielders that might be performed out of place.

”I see Hugo primarily as a quantity 9 that might additionally play from the left or along with one other 9,” Slot stated when requested about his attacking choices. “It’s clear with Darwin gone, Luis Diaz gone. Final season we had 5 – 6 choices—with Diogo as nicely. We have to have yet another attacker at the least.”

It’s lengthy been clear the membership’s dream attacking signing could be Isak, and the 25-year-old Sweden worldwide seems set on exiting Newcastle, with the newest from that membership’s linked journalists describing him as “on strike” whereas Eddie Howe appears more and more resigned to his departure.

Forward of Newcastle’s season opener towards Aston Villa on Saturday, Howe talked of Isak’s push to depart as detrimental to squad morale and admitted they may possible “need to discover a means with out him.” Isak is anticipated to be fined by Newcastle if, as anticipated, he isn’t within the squad towards Villa.

In the meantime, Liverpool are transferring rapidly to shore up one other weak spot within the squad forward of their try and defend final season’s Premier League title, with centre half Giovanni Leoni now on his means from Parma in a £26M deal and the membership nonetheless looking for to usher in Crystal Palace’s Marc Guéhi.