Why Liverpool paid more to sign Naby Keita than when they signed Mohamed Salah in 2017

With the winter transfer market in full swing in the major leagues of Europe, teams like Liverpool seem to be very calm about this opening they will have to be able to sign more elements, having at the moment a special but confusing interest to move forward somehow with the issue of Kylian Mbappé who has already said he will no longer want to continue at PSG, Being his possible arrival one of the most expensive that the team has made and which can generate controversy as happened with elements such as Naby Keita, a midfielder who could never justify the high payment that was made for him.

Precisely the Merseyside team has been trying to avoid this constant of signing elements that were not very useful and too expensive in the transfer market, learning over the years with failed attempts such as Andy Caroll, being in recent years the clearest example the arrival of Naby Keita to the Reds for a value of £52.75 million, exceeding the price of the Guinean by far what was paid at the time for Mohamed Salah who arrived a year earlier for a figure that was around 44 million.

Currently the difference between Keita and Salah is abysmal, and even if both are not playing in the same position, it is easy to know that the Egyptian attacker is a much more complete and profitable player than the Guinean can be in any other institution, but in those years at Liverpool, there was much more hope that Naby would be the next Steven Gerrard-style player than that Mo' would be a historical scorer of the institution.

Evidently the failure of Salah at Chelsea years before had generated certain doubts to Liverpool about this recruitment, trying to make a good deal with the AS Roma team to get a right winger of which they did not know would be their maximum reference during his first season, causing this somehow in Merseyside some relaxation that led to a millionaire purchase for Keita of whom they spoke wonders in Germany but who in England could not show due to inconsistencies due to injury.

Klopp and the Reds have corrected their mistakes for 2023

For many people is not Naby Keita the last great failure of the institution with respect to purchases in transfer markets, entering the list a Darwin Nunez of whom it is said has not been able to justify those £ 85.4 million that were paid for him, correcting both the team's strategist and the top management this type of investment to go for elements of lower profile, During the past summer they have obtained great players who have become leaders of the institution in a short period of time, highlighting the names of Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai who appear as the 13th and 4th most expensive players to be bought by the club so far.