Liverpool Target Double Signing of PSG's Mbaye and Barcola

Liverpool’s rebuild in attack is gathering pace, and the next move could be a statement. The club are weighing up a double raid on Paris Saint-Germain for winger Ibrahim Mbaye and his team-mate Bradley Barcola, as they look to redraw the front line in the post-Mohamed Salah era.

Salah’s departure to Trabzonspor has left more than a gap on the right flank. It has stripped Liverpool of their most reliable source of goals and chaos in the final third. The response from Anfield’s hierarchy is clear: inject speed, youth and unpredictability.

According to English newspaper Daily Mail, Liverpool are among the clubs chasing Senegal international Mbaye, with Manchester City and Tottenham also in the frame. That interest alone underlines how highly rated the winger has become, even without a guaranteed starting role in Paris.

The idea on Merseyside is bolder still. Liverpool are exploring the possibility of moving for both Mbaye and Barcola in one ambitious push, targeting PSG’s two rapid forwards to sharpen an attack that suddenly feels lighter than it did a few months ago.

Concerns over Liverpool’s attacking strength have been growing. The goals have to come from somewhere, and the current options, while talented, do not yet carry Salah’s inevitability. That is why the club are considering a major outlay to reshape the front line in a single window rather than drip-feeding change over several seasons.

PSG, though, will not be easy negotiators. The French champions are expected to demand more than £150 million to part with the pair this summer. For players who have spent large spells on the bench, that price tag is hefty. For a club desperate to refresh its cutting edge, it might be the cost of ambition.

Both Barcola and Mbaye have found themselves on the fringes at the Parc des Princes, often watching from the sidelines as others took centre stage. Liverpool sense an opportunity in that frustration. Two hungry forwards, underused in Paris, could arrive at Anfield with a point to prove and the legs to prove it.

With the new season approaching fast, the timing is tight, the stakes are high, and the margin for error is thin. Liverpool must decide whether this double gamble on PSG’s understudies is the move that powers their next great front line.