Liverpool feeling full weight of massive Mo Salah regret | OneFootball

Liverpool have an enormous Mohamed Salah regret. They're now feeling the full weight of it.

Mohamed Salah left Liverpool this summer. The Egyptian is no longer a Red and will find a new club, something everyone agreed on.

Only, the decision to let Salah walk away puts Liverpool in an incredibly difficult situation. One we're not sure they can find an easy way out of.

The issue? There's no one to replace him. No one actually attainable, anyway, and Liverpool are left shopping in the secondary market to try and replace an all-time great.

Yan Diomande said no, essentially eliminating any chance of the Reds grabbing an elite talent for the role. The other players you'd put in the right talent bracket are already at top clubs, leaving Liverpool scrambling.

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Do they settle for someone like Yakuba Minteh? A 21-year-old who didn't actually match Salah's below-par numbers last season.

But this is a problem of Liverpool's own making. They've ignored the situation for years, refusing to invest in proper cover for Salah since Xherdan Shaqiri left.

Salah was never going to last forward, given he's human, but Liverpool forever left the problem for when it was immediate. They were always going to give themselves one single window to find the Salah successor.

Here is that window and the options are slim. Very slim. Almost non-existent. It's a gigantic problem, given Salah was still one of Liverpool's most productive players last season.

But again, something they brought on themselves. The club will likely need to settle on a gamble or a tide over as a result of waiting this long - and who knows when the problem will fix itself?

If they'd been proactive, as they have been at centre-back with Virgil van Dijk, there would be no scrambling for an option right now. A top talent could have arrived for good money in any of the past three summers.

Instead, here we are.