Liverpool have been advised to consider selling Cody Gakpo this summer if a good enough offer comes in for him.
Former Reds striker believes it could be worth new manager Andoni Iraola considering Gakpo’s future amid transfer interest from Tottenham.
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It would be fair to say that the Netherlands international hasn’t quite lived up to expectations in his time at Anfield, and at the age of 27 we’re perhaps now past the point where they can expect him to improve much further.
It might also be Liverpool’s last chance to make meaningful money from selling Gakpo, so Heskey has a point about how they need to look at this potential deal.
Liverpool advised to consider Cody Gakpo sale
Speaking to 10bet, as quoted by the Metro, Heskey admitted LFC needed to be cold-headed about this, as a decent offer for Gakpo would surely be worth thinking about.
“I would consider selling Cody if a decent offer was on the table,” the former Liverpool and England striker said.
“When you’re coming in as a new manager, you have to cold-headedly look at your assets.
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“He is an asset who holds significant market value that you could cash in on to fund your own vision.”
He added: “He has had a decent enough World Cup in terms of scoring and creating chances for Holland, which keeps his profile high.
“But at club level for Liverpool, it hasn’t consistently looked great for him. So yes, you’d definitely have to consider a serious offer.”
Gakpo has 50 goals in 180 games for Liverpool in total, so while he’s definitely not been a failure, it’s also easy to see how the Merseyside giants could do better.
Then again, having lost Luis Diaz a year ago, and Mohamed Salah this summer, while Hugo Ekitike is also out with a long-term injury, it could also be a bit risky for Liverpool to offload yet another member of their attack.
Gapko was not good last season…the question is why/it cannot be claimed because of the managers style of play/because the manager Slot supported him to the hilt/at times when Gapko’s form definitely did not warrant that support…so then why did Cody’s form drop so badly/the reason matters not the fact is at a time when he was given a bumper contract/blindingly biased support by the manager/at a time when we desperately needed him to step UP/HE STEPPED DOWN. Definitely sell Gapko and invest that money into improving the overall squad. Another player who needs to be sold is Frimpong, he also was less than impactful last season – sell him and go and buy the Australian full back Lucas Herrington/who was Van Dykish in his games for Australia in the World Cup. YNWA.
Gakpo, yes, if we can get anywhere near the 60m mark, that would go some way into the Barcola deal. Frimpong on the other hand needs another season. He is rapid and is usually good at crossing. The problem is he got injured very early on and struggled for form, like a lot of our players under Slott. Under the new manager, he will come good. Look what he did with Kirkez (they are extremely similar players) at Bournemouth. Also he is a good squad player, remember Slot got rid of a large number of the young squad players Klopp loved. If the above happens, then we still need a defensive midfielder, back up left back and at least 1 other centre back (John Stones would be a great solution)