Liverpool want the striker who made Mané forget in Qatar, his price is laughable

Although the World Cup in Qatar keeps Anfield in complete calm and silence, in Liverpool's offices the situation looks very different, as the Merseyside team continues in the hard work of following up all the promising young players of the new generation, with Jurgen Klopp's list with the name of the Dutch striker, Cody Gakpo, underlined in capital letters.

For obvious reasons, the Reds boss has been following the match between the Netherlands and Senegal, because in addition to his great central defender with the Clockwork Orange, Klopp wanted to have a more complete analysis of Cody Gakpo, a 23-year-old striker whose qualities in the last 30 metres of the pitch are very similar to Sadio Mané, precisely the jewel of the Senegalese team which they barely managed to defeat by a score of 1-0.

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It would have been interesting for the German Liverpool boss to see how similar Gakpo could be to Mané in attack, but unfortunately the Bayern player was unable to make a full recovery for the World Cup. But even without the Reds' last major figure of recent years, Klopp still has those memories of Sadio Mané fresh in his mind, and was surprised in the closing minutes to see Cody give his side the first three points by scoring the only goal of the game.

For more than 80 minutes the game between Senegal and the Netherlands missed a true striker capable of turning the tide for either side, for while the Africans missed Mané, the Europeans were relieved that he was not even on the bench, with Gakpo's goal in the 84th minute making everyone in the Al Thumama Stadium forget the Bayern star for a moment.

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The PSV Eindhoven striker is finally getting the attention he deserves after putting in some great displays for the Eredivisie side since 2017, surprising the Anfield crowd and even captain Virgil van Dijk himself, as it was thanks to his fine finishing that the Dutch pulled away from a close game that looked set to be the first draw of the World Cup finals.