Sallai joined Galatasaray in 2024 after establishing himself as a competent right winger for Freiburg and the Hungary national team. Initially signed for an attacking role, the No. 7 has since been reworked into a right back\u2014a position which has been a major problem for Liverpool<\/a> this season.<\/p>\n \u201cI know that contact has already been made through a management office,\u201d Sallai Sr claimed.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want to and I don\u2019t want to shout anything, but my son will really have a good chance in the summer, if there is an offer that is also beneficial for Galatasaray, to change country and level. It wouldn\u2019t be just any moment if Liverpool ran out onto the Anfield Road turf with three Hungarians in the starting team.\u201d<\/p>\n Would Roland Sallai Be a Good Fit at Liverpool? Roland Sallai has been at Galatasaray for more than 18 months. | Gerrit van Keulen\/Soccrates\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Sallai is a character constantly shunted out of the spotlight. It\u2019s telling that it was his father, a former domestic champion during his own playing career, delivering the transfer declarations rather than the unassuming player himself. Sallai came through at Pusk\u00e1s Akademia being coached by his father and brought up on stories of his uncle Sandor playing in two World Cups for Hungary in the 1980s.<\/p>\n In this Galatasaray team spearheaded by Victor Osimhen and laced with eye-catching former Premier League<\/a> talents such as Ilkay G\u00fcndogan, Leroy San\u00e9 and Lucas Torreira, Sallai\u2019s industrious efforts down the right can go unnoticed.<\/p>\n As the legendary former Gala coach Fatih Terim recently said of the fullback, Sallai \u201calways has a surprise for the opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n By this point, it shouldn\u2019t be a shock anymore. Availability and versatility as much as any technical quality are Sallai\u2019s chief assets. The former winger has natural attacking instincts but is a dutiful worker off the ball\u2014wherever he is played.<\/p>\n During one hard-fought win away to Sivasspor during his first season in T\u00fcrkiye, Sallai was deployed in four different positions during the same match. Across his 18 months in Istanbul, he has been forced to miss just three games through injury. Sacha Boey, who is on loan from Bayern Munich<\/a> after making a \u20ac30 million (\u00a326.2 million, $35.3 million) move to Bavaria, cannot get back in the team. <\/p>\n Is Right Back a Position Liverpool Should Be Targeting? Jeremie Frimpong arrived last summer. | Liverpool FC\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Liverpool have been undoubtedly stretched at right back this season. Conor Bradley\u2019s season-ending injury in January left Jeremie Frimpong as the only natural option for this role in Arne Slot\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n Joe Gomez cannot be physically trusted to fill in and Slot has made it abundantly clear that Calvin Ramsay has no future<\/a> in the first team, forcing the Dutch boss to turn to the likes of Dominik Szoboszlai and Curtis Jones to plug that yawning gap on far too many occasions this season.<\/p>\n Most clubs operate under the premise of having two senior internationals to cover each position, but when that pairing are as injury prone as Frimpong and Bradley, a third is perhaps required. Both of Liverpool’s existing fullbacks would be expected to regularly start, so anyone the Reds bring in this summer would have to settle for a supporting role.<\/p>\n![\"Roland](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/01kja8z84mxv1xeg2p0d.jpg\" "\\"Roland")
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