Liverpool's Pursuit of Ibrahim Mbaye: A Step Towards Rebuilding

Liverpool’s search for a new right-sided spearhead may finally be moving from rumour to reality.

After a summer packed with links to forwards across Europe, the club are preparing their first formal bid for Paris Saint‑Germain winger Ibrahim Mbaye, according to reporter Loic Tanzi, who says Liverpool “should send a first offer to Paris… in the coming days.”

It would be the clearest sign yet of how urgently Anfield’s hierarchy want to address the void left by Mohamed Salah.

Life after Salah: a gap you can’t ignore

You don’t replace Salah. Not really.

For years he has been the reference point of Liverpool’s attack, the man who turned tight games and dragged the team through flat spells. Even in a below-par season by his standards last term, he still finished with 22 goal contributions in all competitions. That’s the scale of the hole Liverpool are trying to fill.

Three signings have already arrived as part of a broader rebuild after a disappointing campaign, but the squad still feels short in key areas. The attack, in particular, looks light on proven, top-end quality on the right.

Victor Munoz, Federico Chiesa and Jeremie Frimpong have all been mentioned as options who could operate off that flank. Useful players, versatile, dangerous in their own ways. Yet the sense persists that Liverpool still lack a natural, long-term right-winger to anchor that side of the pitch.

That’s where Mbaye comes in.

Mbaye: raw, ruthless, and available

On paper, Ibrahim Mbaye looks like one of the shrewdest moves Liverpool could make this window.

He is only 18, but already has 19 career goals to his name and has broken into the Senegal national team, earning 15 caps and scoring four times. Those numbers tell a story: this is not just another prospect being talked up on potential alone. He is already delivering on serious stages.

International football can expose young players. It hasn’t fazed him. Four goals in 15 appearances for Senegal underline a forward who plays with a maturity beyond his age, someone who understands timing, movement and pressure.

There is also a crucial structural advantage for Liverpool. Because of his age, by the time he needs to be formally registered in a Premier League squad, he will qualify as homegrown. That addresses one of the club’s biggest squad-building headaches and gives extra value to any deal.

Then there’s the situation in Paris. PSG are open to moving him on. When a club of that size is willing to sell, and the buying club desperately needs exactly that profile of player, the opportunity is hard to ignore.

A natural right-winger. Young. International experience. Goals already on the board. Homegrown status on the horizon. And a selling club ready to do business. The pieces line up.

A thin squad that needs real depth

Strip away the big names and Liverpool’s depth still looks fragile.

Some areas of the team clearly contain quality, but last season’s performances exposed how quickly standards can drop when injuries bite or form dips. That is not the foundation of a side with serious title ambitions.

Landing Mbaye would not solve every issue overnight. It would, though, mark a decisive step in rebuilding a front line that has carried Liverpool for so long. It would add a specialist right-winger to a group currently reliant on adaptation and compromise in that zone.

Liverpool know they can’t clone Salah. What they can do is build the next version of their attack around hungry, high-ceiling talent ready to grow into starring roles.

If the first offer for Ibrahim Mbaye goes in as expected, and if Liverpool can get this over the line, we may be watching the first major move in that new era.