Salah, Chiesa, Gakpo, Wirtz, Ekitike, Frimpong
Slot, the Liverpool head coach, had six senior internationals battling for three positions in his front line last season — Mohamed Salah, Federico Chiesa, Darwin Núñez, Diogo Jota, Cody Gakpo and Luis Díaz.
Since then Liverpool have had to contend with the death of Jota in a car crash alongside his brother, André Silva, while Díaz and Núñez have been sold. Hugo Ekitike has been brought in and Florian Wirtz is versatile and can play in various roles.
Slot was asked if he felt he was short of attacking depth and said: “It depends how you want to look at it. If you want to add Florian Wirtz as an attacking option then you can make it five, so yeah, we’ve sold Darwin and brought in Hugo.
“Lucho [Díaz] has gone, you can maybe see Florian as a replacement for that. And, yes, we all know what happened to Diogo. If you look at it like this, maybe we haven’t [got enough] but Jeremie Frimpong, when he is fit, is definitely an option to play as a winger as well, so then we end up at six forwards.”
Asked to clarify if he was content with his options, Slot added: “I think I’ve said it already. We have six players who can play in three positions. That’s the answer, yeah [I’m happy].”
