{"id":118574,"date":"2025-09-04T15:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118574\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:52:07","slug":"michael-olise-namechecked-as-possible-mohamed-salah-successor-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118574\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Olise namechecked as possible Mohamed Salah successor – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bayern Munich<\/a>\u2018s Michael Olise has been namechecked as a potential Mohamed Salah<\/a> successor, with the 23-year-old one to keep an eye on for Liverpool.<\/p>\n

Salah signed a new contract to 2027 last season, but Liverpool\u2019s succession planning will already be at the forefront of their minds as the Egyptian averages 30 goals a season. <\/p>\n

The Reds\u2019 recruitment staff are known to have held interest in Olise, who now plies his trade for Bayern Munich<\/a> after leaving Crystal Palace<\/a> last summer for around \u00a350 million.<\/p>\n

He was linked as long as four years ago when he was at Reading, and the Mail\u2018s Lewis Steele has stated that he \u201ccannot rule out\u201d Liverpool making a move next summer.<\/p>\n

Steele reports that the club want a long-term replacement for Salah \u201cin the next summer or two\u201d and that \u201cthe early noises\u201d are that Olise \u201ccould be right at the top of their shopping list.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MANCHESTER,<\/p>\n

There are no definitives from Steele, but it stands to reason that the 23-year-old will be watched closely this season.<\/p>\n

He is a skilful and dynamic winger who has 47 goals and 62 assists in his club career so far, and in four outings for Bayern Munich<\/a> this season already has four goals to his name.<\/p>\n

The Frenchman\u2019s contract with the Bavarian side expires in 2029, but there have been suggestions of a release clause that can be triggered next summer, which would be attractive to Liverpool if true.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

After concerns over his injury record throughout 2022\/23 and 2023\/24, Olise went on to play 55 times for Bayern in his debut season for a total of 3,842 minutes.<\/p>\n

His record would have placed him fourth for the most minutes played at Liverpool last season, behind only Salah (4,501), Virgil van Dijk<\/a> (4,437) and Ryan Gravenberch<\/a> (4,207). <\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

What type of player is Michael Olise?<\/p>\n

\"MANCHESTER,<\/p>\n

Although opting to represent France, Olise would be categorised as a homegrown player, a valuable asset for any Premier League<\/a> club, following his development at Reading and Palace.<\/p>\n

He is a left-footed attacker who favours the right wing, much like Salah, and enjoys cutting inside, setting up his teammates and running at his direct opponent. <\/p>\n

Olise finished last season\u2019s Bundesliga campaign with the most assists (15) and was second to Harry Kane for the most goal involvements (27), with FotMob<\/a> ranking him as statistically the second-best player (7.99-out-of-10).<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old created the most big chances (32) ahead of next best Florian Wirtz<\/a> (17) and, perhaps more notably for Arne Slot<\/a>, won possession in the final third 1.4 times per 90, the second-most of any Bundesliga player.<\/p>\n

With 230 senior appearances for club and country at 23, plus experience in the Premier League<\/a>, it would be no surprise if Liverpool did seek to pursue a move, though you expect they will not be the only ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich\u2018s Michael Olise has been namechecked as a potential Mohamed Salah successor, with the 23-year-old one to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,7886,85],"class_list":["post-118574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}