Liverpool’s brilliant new look WITH Jeremie Frimpong | OneFootball

Liverpool and Jeremie Frimpong

Frimpong is a very attacking player. He’s someone who wants to bomb forward at every opportunity and make the right flank his own.

So how does that fit in at Liverpool? Well, immediately, you can see how it benefits the squad to have both Frimpong and Conor Bradley as options.

Bradley is undoubtedly more of a traditional right-back but he’s far more Frimpong than Alexander-Arnold. He likes to push forward, even centrally, and take up positions in and around the box if possible.

He’s a counter-attacking dream, even if he’s not quite as dynamic as Frimpong. Having both, though, allows Arne Slot to focus on this style of play. Bradley is the more reserved, Frimpong the more attacking but importantly, the style remains the same.

But that’s just the base here. Having Frimpong as a right-back removes the need to have a wide-minded winger on the same flank - in fact, you can argue such a player would get in the way.

So what does that mean for Mo Salah? The Egyptian has taken to staying very, very wide in recent years, stretching the play and offering the wide play that Alexander-Arnold doesn’t.

Well, if Frimpong can handle the width, Salah can move inside. That’s something Liverpool will be very eager to test as he moves through his 30s - getting the star attacker closer to goal and into the box more often.

That would actually mean Liverpool get their best goalscorer and their best creator more central, given Salah fits both descriptions right now. We’ve seen how, particularly later in this campaign, the Egyptian is often isolated on the flank in games - Frimpong (and to a lesser extent Bradley) could be the fix for that.

But it would also allow Liverpool to operate with a different winger on that flank. Someone who wants to cut inside more? Someone who wants to vacate the wide space and drift inside? Someone with less pace? All are suddenly a lot more viable if the full-back is overlapping at a higher rate and at pace.

There’s the other element here, though - Frimpong as the winger. We know he can do it and it may well be that Liverpool don’t see the 24-year-old purely as a right-back. He might actually be the best-possible signing to cover for Salah, something that must be considered given AFCON kicks off in December and the Reds’ no.11 will be away.

The club could find two players for one here, then. A replacement in the squad for Alexander-Arnold and the player to cover for Salah, albeit temporarily, later in the year.

Signing Frimpong, then, could have dramatic effects on a new-look Liverpool. It’s a move towards a complete shift at right-back with more aggression and energy. But it’s also a way to unlock more from Salah and grab new opportunities for him later in his career.