Not exactly a Salah replacement, but I think we need someone to provide width on the right side. With all the space Salah creates, he lacks someone to make runs for overlaps, so his only option is cut inside everytime. Szobo does it occasionally, but not frequently enough, while Trent prefers to stay in half spaces.
Having extra pace and dynamism would be a big help. We don’t have much of that right now, except for Diaz, in my opinion.
Hipster alert!
I think there’s a great deal that you misunderstand about me but that’s the beauty of being on an Internet forum, I guess. 
I countered your Salah joke with my Salah joke but, while I like versatile players, I fundamentally dislike the notion of a fullback covering for a winger, especially a winger like Salah.
While you probably can’t have it both ways, I’m concerned (more from reading the reports and various statistical comparisons from sites like FBref) that he’s not a fullback who’s good enough in defensive aspects. I’ve been putting up with TAA’s defending for past three years because he used to be one of the best right backs I’ve seen in my life (and was club born and bred), so I’d prefer a right back who cares to defend.
In the end, it’s about finding a player who makes the team look larger than the sum of its parts. I hope every player Liverpool bring in is one of that ilk, I’m just really not sure that Frimpong is one of them.
That reply you’re replying to was written for @rab not you, I got your joke and nothing I said in that post had to do with what you wrote…
But the rest of what you said I think it’s more the idea that he’s pretty much like a right-sided Bale in my head, starting out as a left-back but proficient enough further forward that it might be his longer-term position.
Doak played at AFCON?
Even if that were possible. Arteta would have driven him to the ground due to him overusing Saka.
Everyone predicted that Saka was likely due an injury. Arteta still persisted in overusing him. I expect that those injuries will only pick up now.
I meant Doak playing on the right wing for us, unless I missed where Scotland decided they’d have a better chance of winning something by joining Africa…
But isn’t that indicative of the way Trent plays and with him out the door you’ve a much more traditional overlapping RB in Bradley?
If we wanted a right footer on the right then we could be using Diaz or Gakpo there but we haven’t even tried it. Hell, we could have tried Jota or Nunez there but that’s not happened either.
I’m in the same boat as @Nikola. He’s just too much of an inbetweener to see how he offers us options at either RB or RW. Seems made for a team playing with wing backs.
I think one thing to keep in mind is that the statistical analysis that these guys can do is at a level of sophistication where we don’t need a player to already be doing the exact job in the exact formation we’d ear mark him for to be able to evaluate his fit for a role in our team.
Frimpong is clearly talented and has a lot of positive traits such that if our lads have looked and see a good enough to justify targeted him then its going to be very exciting. But if not, then Im sure whomever else we’re looking at will be just as exciting.
I like that he can cover right back and right wing. With Bradley’s injuries and Salah off to AFCON, he would see plenty of action right down the flank.
Fbref stats and so on are ok for fans, but I’m as certain as can be the club will have more sophisticated measures. If they like the cut of his jib, bring it on. If not, there are a couple of exciting Brazilian right backs who will probably make a move this summer - Wesley and Vanderson.
I’m chilled, and I think we will make a good move. I’d like Frimpong as he can cover two positions, and the side needs an injection of pace, but let’s see how it unfolds.
Add to this, he qualifes as home grown. Trent and probably kelleher off. Maybe Elliot.
The reason I am not sure a RB is high on the list is that I think Bradley is going to be allowed the chance to establish himself as 1st choice then we have Gomez, Quansah and possibly Bajcetic who could all cover there too.
Getting the left back we need is probably more important. That way even if we do have stand-ins at RB we should still have that width and pace being offered from LB, something we visobly had less of this season with Robertson’s physical decline. That’s why I want Kerkez so much.
Frimpong would fall into the opportunistic category if we signed him.
Gomez is decent enough at RB, when fit. The other two…nah
Pity that Ramsay has dropped off a cliff after his knee injury. He has barely played for Kilmarnock since going there on loan in January, merely making sporadic appearances from the bench in the dying minutes.
Think he’ll be sold if we can find a buyer, or his contract not renewed if we can’t.
Yeah agree he has no future here unfortunately. Probably will end up back in Scotland, hopefully he can get his career back on track.
Well Quansah has regularly stepped in at RB this season and done fine, hasn’t put a dent in us winning the league by him going in there. Bajcetic hasn’t been seen in a red shirt for nearly 2 years so I don’t know what metric you’re using to say he isn’t good enough. Had a tough time at Salzburg, as didnthe entire Salzburg team under Lijnders, but his loan at Las Palmas is going well.
I hope Kerketz is done. 
Lb and CF are clearly bigger priorities than others.
He has done fine…but i want better than fine. Given Trent is leaving the likelihood is we need someone to be ready to start 25+ games at RB. As much as i think Quansah has the attributes to be great (as a CB), he isn’t a going to be enough to support Salah on the right by creating space etc that Bradley or someone like Aina or Frimpong might.
Shutting games down…yeah fine
From what I can tell Frimping wouldn’t be creating space for Salah, he would using Salah’s space. He seems like he’s nominally a RB but more realistically a RW. Think that would require a big change in his game to be the player who attacks the space rather than one who is already in it.
Aina is a pure defender, he’s had a good season for Forest but I don’t think he offers anything like the support ability. He’s basically Wan-Bissaka - tackles tough, can’t pass and has no technical ability past the halfway line. Sometimes he can burn a disinterested winger for pace and boost his dribbling stats but he’s not a progressive weapon. I’d much rather have Gomez or Quansah there, personally, than bring in Aina. They serve the same function - defend and offer little going forwards.
If we brought in a RB, which I don’t think we will, I would rather have Neco Williams back. He at least has a good motor and technical ability - essentially a slightly lower level Bradley.
I agree that none of Gomez, Quansah or Bajcetic would be ideal RB candidates but the club I think are going to give Bradley that space to make it his own and bringing in another option there would likely necessitate another bit of transfer action with someone like Gomez then looking like an odd one out. It just becomes more of a headache.
At its best you have Bradley and Kerkez both adding energy and quality down the flanks. If Bradley isn’t fit you have Kerkez doing it down the left and a more defensive right back, so then you probably do something in midfield like have Szoboszlai drift across more often etc something like that. There are ways to make it work, I don’t think the transfer market is where we address it.
Dreadful coach and runs his mouth in print. Glad he’s away from Kirkby.