Arne Slot gets green light for EXTRAORDINARY new £200m forward plan

Liverpool completed around £450m worth of signings during last summer’s landmark transfer window.

We saw the Reds’ sporting director break the British transfer record TWICE - first for Florian Wirtz and then for Alexander Isak.

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Wirtz, 22, came in from Bayer Leverkusen for a fee that could reach £116m overall while Isak cost a mammoth £125m.

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But the Premier League champions didn’t stop there - with other key arrivals including Hugo Ekitike (£69m), Milos Kerkez, Jeremie Frimpong, Giovanni Leoni and Giorgi Mamardashvili.

Liverpool waiting for the best of their new signings

It’s fair to say that Ekitike aside the Reds are still waiting to see the best of their new signings - with Leoni injured and expected to be out of action for a year.

The potential in the squad - especially in an attacking sense - is extraordinary. It’s just a matter of time before things click for Isak - who has made four appearances and scored one goal - as well as Wirtz - who is under big scrutiny.

Ekitike, 23, has been the early-season success story. He has kicked things off with FIVE goals in his opening eight appearances - blotting his copybook slightly with a red card against Southampton last week.

The Frenchman carried the fight in the first few games of the season with Isak not yet signed from Newcastle and initially short of match practice when he did arrive.

Liverpool have got a £200m strike partnership in waiting

It remains to be seen what Slot’s plans will include when he has both new strikers up and running - but Ekitike has now given his blessing to playing in a front TWO alongside Isak.

Given that Ekitike and Isak cost a combined total of around £200m - it is a strike force that promises to trouble a lot of defences in the Premier League and Europe.

Ekitike CAN play with Isak

"I can't see one big club playing with only one striker, so I think it's good that he's here,” Ekitike told the press of Isak.

"Even for me at my age, I think I still have a lot of things to improve and learn, so for me it's good that he's here.

"[As for if we can play together] that's for the coach to decide how he wants to play. That's not me.

"But obviously it's great players. I've been playing in two-striker composition, one striker, so I can do a lot of things. If we have to play together, I can do that."

Can Slot get Liverpool firing on all cylinders?

Ekitike and Isak have yet to take to the field together for the Reds - although they have been in the same squad three times. But usually Arne Slot has sent one on to replace the other instead of going with two up top.

Either is comfortable as the central striker - while Ekitike has starred in a partnership alongside Omar Marmoush at Frankfurt.

With Liverpool not yet firing on all cylinders, these comments from Ekitike could be the green light Slot needs to get even more goals out of his strike line.

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