Here's your warning, Premier League: Liverpool have found another SUPERSTAR | OneFootball

Liverpool have found themselves another superstar. Here's the warning to the Premier League.

Liverpool spent an outrageous amount of money in the summer as they looked to overhaul their squad. The Reds focused on the full-backs and their attack, hoping to improve on a title-winning side.

That's far from easy to do, as we've seen. Elite players have come in but they don't necessarily fit together - nor are they certain to bring the levels they were at with their previous club.

It's certainly been the case thus far. Liverpool spent a lot of money on Alexander Isak and Florian Wirtz as their star singings. The most expensive signings in club history, in fact.

Neither have really come close to replicating the performances that earned them those big-money moves, though. That's a big problem as Liverpool are essentially searching for their new superstar for the post-Mo Salah era - someone who can truly lead the club forward in attack.

But maybe they've found that player - and it's neither Isak nor Wirtz.

Hugo Ekitike is that man

Liverpool's other major attacking signing wasn't exactly an afterthought but he certainly wasn't the main-event over the summer. Hugo Ekitike joined from Eintracht Frankfurt as almost a consolation prize at a time when he appeared Isak wouldn't be joining.

By the time the Swede did join, Ekitike's position wasn't clear. He'd started the season well but Liverpool were clearly replacing him already - a team that uses one centre-forward didn't have room for two remarkably similar options.

But as we approach Christmas, it's clear who Liverpool's main man is. It's Ekitike - and he's doing it at just 23.

The Frenchman's season has been a strange one. He started it in brilliant form, scoring in his opening two Premier League games (as well as the Community Shield) and had three in his first five league starts for Liverpool.

Then the goals dried up. His strike against Everton on September 20th was his last league goal for two and a half months. However, that was also the last time he was the starting striker for Liverpool.

The very next match after the 20th was Isak's first start and it feels safe to say that it had an affect on Ekitike. He didn't start any of the three league games before the Leeds United fixture but bounced back with a brace.

He's now got another brace against Brighton and it couldn't be more obvious that Ekitike shines when he feels like the main man. And he's certainly becoming that.

“What I mainly see is people focusing on his goal," Arne Slot told LFCTV after the match. "Football is a low-scoring sport so goals are really important. But I also see a different thing where he gets better and he gets stronger and stronger.

“So it’s getting more difficult for the other players of other teams to get him off the ball. He’s getting more and more energy to keep on running with and without the ball."

And this is just a warning to the Premier League. Ekitike is the star Liverpool hoped they were signing in the summer - someone capable of delivering that unstoppable nature in attack.

He's getting better and that's plain for all to see. Slot believes he's only getting more energy and he's only getting more difficult for opponents to manage.

If he continues on this path, Ekitike is the Salah successor.