{"id":495928,"date":"2026-03-26T06:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/495928\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T06:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:31:12","slug":"liverpool-fc-may-have-already-found-their-mohammed-salah-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/495928\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool FC may have already found their Mohammed Salah replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Egyptian star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/football\/steven-gerrard-liverpool-fc-stars-mohamed-salah-announcement-b1276309.html\" title=\"Steven Gerrard and Liverpool stars react to shock Mohamed Salah announcement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced on Tuesday<\/a> that this season will be his last for the Reds, calling time on a trophy-laden nine-year spell on Merseyside.<\/p>\n<p>Salah will hope to add to his bursting trophy cabinet during his final months at the club, having already picked up two Premier League winners&#8217; medals and lifted the Champions League, FA Cup, Carabao Cup, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>It has been reported that talks between Liverpool and Salah over a summer exit have been ongoing for months, with the idea of cutting his contract short first discussed in December.<\/p>\n<p>It has allowed Liverpool to begin casting their eye over potential replacements, and one name is ringing louder than others.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2261836619.jpeg\" width=\"3645\" height=\"2844\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-eqUAAy kgsspP\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yan Diomande<\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/yan-diomande\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yan Diomande<\/a> is the favourite with the bookmakers to be Salah&#8217;s replacement at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>The RB Leipzig star has been attracting interest from Europe&#8217;s top clubs after a stellar first season in the Bundesliga, which has seen him rise to prominence after making his breakthrough with Leganes in La Liga.<\/p>\n<p>Premier League pair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/anthony-gordon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Gordon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/jarrod-bowen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jarrod Bowen<\/a> are joint-second in the market, followed closely by Tottenham duo Dejan Kulusevski and Mohamed Kudus, and Brighton&#8217;s Yankuba Minteh.<\/p>\n<p>The cheapest option may prove to be Harry Wilson, who left Liverpool to join Fulham and is currently set to be a free agent in the summer. Much like Salah, Christian Pulisic left Chelsea to prove his worth elsewhere and is now an attractive option at AC Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more eye-catching options include Desire Doue and Bradley Barcola, both of Paris Saint-Germain, while Rodrygo has regularly been tipped to leave Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2206279265.jpg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1381\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-eqUAAy kgsspP\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Anthony Gordon and Jarrod Bowen<\/p>\n<p>The FA via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Salah replacement odds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Egyptian star announced on Tuesday that this season will be his last for the Reds, calling time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[46085,49,54937,174700,50,51,47,52,48,140439],"class_list":{"0":"post-495928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-anthony-gordon","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-jarrod-bowen","11":"tag-mohammed-salah","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories","17":"tag-yan-diomande"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}