Arne Slot has seen enough: He wants to SELL fans' favourite forward

Liverpool took the opportunity to replenish their strike line in the summer transfer window.

Richard Hughes oversaw £450m worth of spending - with several forward arriving in the post-Premier League title win shakeup.

Hugo Ekitike has gone off like a rocket - with six goals in 12 games - and Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak have also come on board.

Those two were each signed for a British record fee. In Wirtz’s case the sum could reach £116m while Isak cost £125m.

Chiesa reduced to bit-part role

We are still waiting for the best of them to truly emerge but there is no doubt that Arne Slot is going to persist with his new signings after bringing them in.

The knock-on effect is a reduced role for Federico Chiesa.

Where other forward options - such as Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez - left the club over the summer, Chiesa was kept around. The 28-year-old has been in brilliant shape whenever he’s stepped on the pitch - weighing in with two goals and three assists so far.

But the Italian international simply cannot make a decisive breakthrough under Slot as a starter and has had to settle for a backup role.

Arne Slot decides to let Chiesa go

Now Fichajes is claiming that the Liverpool hierarchy have made up their mind on Chiesa - and a departure in January or summer 2026 is on the cards.

“Chiesa appears destined to leave Anfield in the next window, either on loan or on a transfer, to free up space in the squad and pave the way for new attacking signings,” the report reads.

Chiesa is under contract until 2028 but has been linked with the exit for the last couple of windows. His adaptation process was complicated by injury and a lack of fitness - and his performances last season were thought to be under par.

Chiesa leaving - either on loan or permanently

Now Richard Hughes is apparently deciding whether to let Chiesa leave on loan or else recoup a fee on a player who cost £12.5m from Juventus in September 2024.

Teams in Serie A will be interested and Chiesa has got the quality to be a difference maker.

However, with the Premier League champions looking at a new wave of signings - including Antoine Semenyo and Michael Olise - the time has come to say goodbye to Anfield.

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