Liverpool's Ambitious Triple Signing to Revamp Forward Line

Liverpool’s attack is being stripped back and sketched anew. The brief is clear: width, pace, and a cutting edge that simply wasn’t there last season.

Too often, the pitch felt narrow. Opponents sat in, untroubled by runners in behind or wingers driving at full-backs. The ball went side to side, rarely ripping through the lines. Liverpool know it. The recruitment team know it. This summer is about fixing it.

They began with Yan Diomande as the headline target out wide, a move designed to stretch defences and reintroduce genuine speed on the flanks. That chase has faded, but the strategy hasn’t changed. It’s just shifted to Paris.

Barcola talks reach critical stage

Liverpool are now deep in negotiations with Paris Saint-Germain over Bradley Barcola, a winger whose profile fits the brief almost too perfectly. According to L’Équipe, the club are preparing an offer worth €115m to prise him from the Parc des Princes.

That is heavyweight money. It signals intent. It also underlines just how urgent Liverpool view their need for a winger who can hurt teams in transition and isolate defenders one-on-one.

Barcola would bring exactly that: acceleration, direct running, and the ability to drag a back four wider than it wants to go. After a season in which Liverpool repeatedly ran out of ideas in the final third, that kind of threat carries a premium.

Double raid on PSG

The push for width doesn’t stop with Barcola. Fabrice Hawkins reports that Liverpool are also working on a deal for Ibrahim Mbaye, another PSG attacker who would inject speed and aggression into the front line.

Two forwards, both quick, both vertical, both capable of changing the tempo of a game with a single run. It’s no coincidence Liverpool are leaning so heavily into that profile. They were too predictable last year; these are the type of signings that blow open a game plan.

Yet even a double swoop might not be enough.

If Barcola arrives, Cody Gakpo is expected to move on, with Tottenham Hotspur ready to take him. That would reshape the forward unit again and leave Mbaye as the only natural option from the right. For a club chasing major honours, that feels light.

Which is where the third name comes in.

Endrick: the Firmino-style wildcard

Liverpool have tracked Endrick since 2022. Now, the Brazilian is open to a move away from Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu, and the Anfield hierarchy see an opportunity they’ve waited years for.

This isn’t a speculative punt. It’s a long-term admiration finally meeting a realistic opening.

Endrick offers something Liverpool badly lack: a left-footed attacker who can operate from the right but is just as comfortable – and arguably more dangerous – through the middle. In a squad with, remarkably, no left-footed forwards, that alone makes him a strategic fit.

His movement between the lines, his ability to drop in and link play, and his work without the ball have all drawn comparisons with Roberto Firmino. In the right environment, with the right structure around him, he could grow into that kind of central fulcrum. Liverpool believe that environment is Anfield.

There is another layer to this. With Hugo Ekitike sidelined until 2027, the need for a central option who can carry the attack for years, not months, becomes even more pressing. Endrick fits that timeline.

A front line built for the next era

Put the three together and the picture changes quickly.

Barcola tearing down one flank. Mbaye driving at defenders from the other. Endrick drifting, linking, finishing, and offering that elusive left-footed balance. Youth, pace, goals, and already a taste of the biggest stage, with all three having featured at the World Cup this summer.

This is not a cosmetic refresh. It’s the kind of triple signing that can drag a team up a level or two almost overnight, and then keep it there.

Liverpool’s attack has looked like a memory of what it once was. This plan, if they can pull it off, turns it into a warning.

Now the question is simple: will the club turn intent and admiration into signatures and shirt numbers, or let a defining window slip away?