Liverpool identify Borussia Dortmund star Karim Adeyemi as possible replacement for Mohamed Salah

Tom OlverPublished Oct 8, 2024, 11:23am|Updated Oct 8, 2024, 11:24am

Liverpool are keeping adjacent tabs connected Karim Adeyemi and presumption the guardant arsenic a imaginable semipermanent replacement for Mohamed Salah.

Salah, 32, Liverpool’s third-highest goalscorer of each time, has entered into the last twelvemonth of his declaration and talks implicit an hold look to person reached an impasse.

As it stands, Salah volition beryllium escaped to sermon pre-contract presumption with overseas clubs successful January and the Reds person been forced to gully up plans for the aboriginal without their talismanic Egyptian.

The Saudi Pro League has agelong been mooted arsenic an enactment for Salah going guardant and the attacker appeared to corroborate that it would beryllium his last play connected Merseyside aft Liverpool’s decision of Manchester United past month.

According to Sky Sports Deutschland, Borussia Dortmund prima Adeyemi is firmly successful Liverpool’s sights and has been identified by Anfield bosses arsenic a ‘potential successor’ to Salah.

Adeyemi has enjoyed an fantabulous commencement to the season, racking up 5 goals and 5 assists successful 8 games, and his signifier has not gone unnoticed, with Liverpool among respective clubs monitoring the German.

The 22-year-old is presently sidelined with a musculus issue, though, and his wounded problems person enactment immoderate clubs disconnected a move.

Juventus registered a keen involvement successful Adeyemi successful the summertime and appeared connected the cusp of getting a woody implicit the line, lone for the winger crook down a power to Turin to enactment connected successful the Bundesliga.

Adeyemi has scored 19 goals successful 74 appearances for Dortmund since swapping Red Bull Salzburg for the Westfalenstadion 2 years ago.

His existent declaration with Dortmund runs done to the summertime of 2027.

Chelsea were credited with an involvement successful Adeyemi successful the summertime transportation model and it was reported that the player’s representatives had been contacted implicit a projected determination to Stamford Bridge.

But Adeyemi – who has been capped 4 times by the German nationalist squad – was said to beryllium ‘unreceptive’ to Chelsea’s approach arsenic helium wished to proceed playing Champions League shot this season.

Adeyemi completed a stunning first-half hat-trick successful Dortmund’s thumping 7-1 triumph implicit Celtic successful the Champions League past week but was forced disconnected done wounded conscionable moments into the 2nd period.

Dortmund caput manager Nuri Sahin heaped praise connected Adeyemi successful his post-match property league earlier it was revealed that the guardant would beryllium sidelined for respective weeks.

‘Wingers and attacking players are going to people goals and that’s however they’re measured.

‘But what impressed maine contiguous was the enactment against the ball, that’s the benchmark for Karim, however I measurement him.’

Dortmund skipper Emre Can, formerly of Liverpool, added: ‘He played brilliantly, not conscionable today, but besides the past weeks.

‘He’s playing with much maturity, with much determination. That’s the requirement.’

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