Liverpool are well and truly in the market for a new winger this summer, after news that club legend Mohamed Salah will leave Anfield on a free transfer.
Liverpool's reported targets to replace Mo Salah
The days since Salah posted his farewell video have been dominated by one question at Anfield: who comes next?
Liverpool's Mohamed Salah on the substitutes bench before the match
Indeed, FSG's search for a replacement has already produced a succession of different names.
Michael Olise at Bayern Munich is one, but he's apparently untouchable — the club have made that emphatically clear and the player himself has no desire to leave, at least according to the I Paper this week.
PSG, as per TEAMtalk, would want a mammoth fee for coveted winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, who has dazzled at the Parc des Princes since his move from Napoli.
Liverpool are said to have held some discussions with his representatives in the last few months, but PSG apparently value him at a staggering £160 million.
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His stance has been made clear.
Bradley Barcola and Desire Doue, two other PSG stars wanted by Liverpool, could also prove just as difficult to prise away from the French capital.
Nico Williams at Athletic Club, Francisco Conceicao of Juventus, West Ham star Jarrod Bowen, Newcastle's Anthony Gordon and even Everton winger Iliman Ndiaye have all been mentioned by sections of the press this week.
It is shaping up to be a long summer already, but according to the reliable Florian Plettenberg of Sky Germany, Liverpool have narrowed down their 'top three' candidates to succeed Salah.
One of them is RB Leipzig sensation Yan Diomande.
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The highly respected reporter has confirmed that the 19-year-old winger is among Liverpool's preferred options to succeed Salah, with various conversations ongoing behind the scenes as FSG assess their options across multiple candidates simultaneously.
The numbers Diomande has produced in his debut Bundesliga season make it straightforward to see why Liverpool's attention has landed so firmly on the 'gifted' forward.
Born in Abidjan and raised in the United States — playing high school soccer in Florida before cutting his teeth at the DME Academy — his journey to European football has been rapid and remarkable.
He joined Leganés in Spain in January 2025, made his La Liga debut just two months later, and scored his first professional goal before the end of that season.
RB Leipzig moved quickly and decisively in July 2025, paying his £17m release clause and tying him to a five-year deal.
Since arriving in the Bundesliga, he has not looked back.
Borussia Dortmund's Daniel Svensson in action with RB Leipzig's Yan Diomande
10 goals and seven assists in 26 league appearances this season, including a hat-trick against Eintracht Frankfurt in December — the second-youngest player to achieve that feat in Bundesliga history.
His pace, directness and ability to cut in from the right flank give him a similar profile to the role Salah has occupied so fluently at Anfield for nine years.
The obstacle, as Plettenberg underlines, is the price.
RB Leipzig are demanding up to €100m — around £87m — for a teenager with barely a full season of top-level European football behind him.
The Athletic's James Pearce has described that figure as "excessive," reflecting FSG's own view of where value lies in this particular deal.
Diomande is clearly one of the most serious of Liverpool's targets, but the price could be a very tricky hurdle to navigate.
Whether Leipzig's valuation can be negotiated downward, or whether the asking price proves insurmountable, will go a long way towards defining how Liverpool rebuild this summer.