€50m and he's yours: BARGAIN forward could be solution to Liverpool's problem

Liverpool signed £200m worth of new strikers in the summer transfer window.

A deal was done for Hugo Ekitike at £69m with the Frenchman arriving from Eintracht Frankfurt.

Then came the biggest one of all.

Alexander Isak came to the club on transfer deadline day for a British record fee of £125m.

But those signings have not yet paid off.

Ekitike got his Liverpool career off to a good start and quickly scored three Premier League goals in the early part of the season. But the 23-year-old is without a top-flight goal since September and has been less assured of his starting place since then too.

Isak is a conundrum. The Swede scored 23 times in the Premier League last season for Newcastle but is struggling for Liverpool. He’s barely played - racking up only 337 PL minutes across five appearances so far.

The fourth-most expensive player is without a league goal in that time and in fact has only managed to put one shot on target in that time.

Guirassy available for €50m

Accordingly it has been suggested that Liverpool could move for another striker next summer.

The target in question is Serhou Guirassy. Borussia Dortmund’s leading marksman has been a revelation since signing from Stuttgart in 2023 - earning a place on the Ballon d’Or shortlist in 2025 and topping the Champions League scoring charts last season.

According to various reports he’s got a €50m release clause in his Dortmund contract which is available to a select few clubs in summer 2026 - Liverpool included.

Guirassy is 29 however and it’s hard to see how he could be a long-term solution to Liverpool’s ongoing woes in front of goal.

Under contract until 2028 at the Westfalenstadion, having played in relative obscurity for the first half of his career.

Target man and penalty-box predator

And this may well be a good fit for the Reds.

You’re definitely not getting a Roberto Firmino-style “centre-forward”; let’s clear that up first. He’s never got more than three league assists in any season in his career.

But he IS a fantastic target man and goalscorer - a penalty-box predator who would feast on good service and loose balls in the area.

Liverpool have scored 18 times this season - not a bad total particularly for a bottom-half team. Their centre forwards have only got three between them - and all of those belong to Ekitike.

So this is definitely an area that can be improved.

Is Guirassy the solution?

The red flag however is that these forwards have been lacking in service. You can fill this team with any number of strikers but if they are not getting the ball in the right areas then they are always going to struggle to score.

Liverpool aren’t necessarily missing a half-decent striker in this poor season; it’s the fact that Luis Diaz’s penetration and relentless pressing haven’t been replaced down the left flank and the loss of Trent Alexander-Arnold has had an outsized effect on how Arne Slot’s side get the ball forward.