Former Liverpool forward Stan Collymore believes his old club could be forced into making a move for either the next Robert Lewandowski or Harry Kane this summer.
Liverpool’s slim Premier League title hopes all but ended on Sunday after they were beaten 4-1 by Manchester City at Anfield.
With the game evenly poised at 1-1, two costly mistakes from Alisson Becker handed City a two-goal cushion before Phil Foden completed the scoring in the final 10 minutes.
It was the first time since the start of the 1963/64 season that Liverpool have lost three home league games in a row, and the result leaves the Reds 10 points behind Pep Guardiola’s side.
Plenty has been said since the game about the strength in depth in Liverpool’s squad, with many in the game predicting a mini overhaul in the summer.
City are also reportedly planning their own mini overhaul in the summer, with Borussia Dortmund forward Erling Haaland continually linked with a move to the Etihad.
A report last week claimed that City are lining up a £100m bid for the Dortmund forward, despite a clause in his contract that will make him available for £66m in the summer of 2022.
But the report claimed that Guardiola is unwilling to wait and is keen to sign Haaland as he sees him as the ideal replacement for Sergio Aguero.
And Collymore believes that if City make a move for Haaland in the summer, then the Reds should make a bid for Tottenham forward Kane.
“You have to look at these things over four or five years and Liverpool will still be in the title talk in each of them,” the former Reds forward wrote in the Mirror.
“That said, they do need to wake up and smell the coffee, which means owners FSG spending money to go toe-to-toe with City in that period.
“It means that if City go out and buy Erling Haaland this summer then Liverpool must buy the next Robert Lewandowski or even put in a bid for Harry Kane.
“What they can’t do is just say, ‘We have a really good XI, some youngsters coming through, and we can maintain our challenges that way’, because there are too many other teams with the money to make sure that won’t be the case.”
