With Salah set to leave Anfield as a free agent over the summer, as he is released from the final year of his contract, Liverpool requiresomebody to succeed their 257-goal ‘Egyptian King’.
Cole does not expect that responsibility to be passed in Ngumoha’s direction, with the ex-England international saying: “I think Liverpool, now [Hugo] Ekitike is out for a long time, there's holes there. He's not going to start in the next season, I'm sure. Salah's leaving, so it might be big for him [Ngumoha] to go straight in. I'm sure they'll sign another player who can fit the mould of both of them types of players.
“If you've got that talent in your club, you do have a plan for him. They sit down, they watch him every day. They know the lad's mentality. They know whether they want to put that pressure on him from the start of next season to be the main man at Liverpool. Or do they want to take it off and just keep him developing nicely? Only Arne Slot and his team and the people upstairs will know that.”