Fowler:
"I think it won’t just be Harry Kane who will be in demand this summer, but Mo Salah - though obviously I’m not suggesting for one minute that Liverpool should, or will, sell him"
"Looking around at the top of world football right now, and it seems like it’s a good time to be a proven striker."
"Which is why I think it won’t just be Harry Kane who will be in demand this summer, but Mo Salah - though obviously I’m not suggesting for one minute that Liverpool should, or will, sell him."
"When you think of the strikers we all talk about and place at the top of the European game, then only Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland are young, still developing forwards.
"Otherwise the names we are talking about this summer are the names that we’ve been talking about for five or six years, or even longer. It’s Messi, Lewandowski, Benzema, Kane, Salah and to a lesser extent these days, Neymar and Ronaldo.
Two of those have left two of the richest clubs in the world this past week, and are moving out of European football completely, while you’d put your money on PSG desperately trying to unload Neymar.
So they and Madrid are in the market for a proven top class striker. And that’s where it gets interesting.
Because two more of the biggest clubs in the world - Bayern Munich and Manchester United - have been looking for a proven, top class striker for the past year.
Lewandowski looks like he’ll finish his career at Barcelona, while no way can I see Haaland being available this summer
Which leaves Kane and Salah…and Neymar, if anyone is daft enough to take a punt on a player who looks like he’s had enough of football.
Four of the biggest clubs in the world who want one thing - the guarantee of goals. And two strikers in English football who have delivered them magnificently over the past seven years. There’s going to be a helluva scrap.
I only mention Salah because I’ve thought for a few months now that he could be targeted this summer, and it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if both Madrid and PSG come in for him - with the French club nailed on in my opinion to try and get him.
I don’t think Liverpool fans should be too worried, because he’s got a long contract and the club has proved in the past few years they won’t be forced into selling unless its on their own terms.
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