Liverpool's Plan for Salah Succession: Ibrahim Mbaye on the Radar
Liverpool’s Salah succession plan may finally be moving from theory to action.
The club have spent the summer linked with a carousel of names, but with pre-season ticking by and last year’s failings still fresh, the rebuild has felt incomplete. Three signings are already through the door, yet the squad still looks short of the depth and edge required to chase major honours again.
And the biggest hole of all remains on the right.
Liverpool prepare first move for Ibrahim Mbaye
Mohamed Salah has not been replaced. Not properly. Not structurally. Not in a way that convinces anyone that Liverpool can live without the “Egyptian King” in the long term.
Even in what was widely viewed as a down year, Salah still finished with 22 goal contributions in all competitions. That kind of output doesn’t just disappear without leaving a crater in the attack.
Victor Munoz, Federico Chiesa and Jeremie Frimpong can all operate on the right flank, but none of them is a like-for-like heir, and none solves the long-term question on their own. Liverpool still need another top-level forward who can grow into that role.
That is where Ibrahim Mbaye comes in.
“Liverpool should send a first offer to Paris for Ibrahim Mbaye in the coming days,” journalist Loic Tanzi reported on his personal X account, indicating that Anfield is finally ready to test Paris Saint-Germain’s resolve.
If that bid lands, Liverpool’s attacking puzzle starts to look very different.
An 18-year-old with senior pedigree
On paper, Mbaye looks like the kind of smart, opportunistic deal that has underpinned Liverpool’s best recent work in the market.
He is only 18. Yet he already has 19 career goals to his name and, crucially, real international experience. Fifteen caps for Senegal, four goals at that level, and a reputation for maturity beyond his years.
Those are not youth-team numbers. That is a teenager already trusted on the senior stage.
Liverpool’s squad, exposed last season for its lack of reliable depth, needs exactly this type of profile: young, hungry, and already tested under pressure. The performances of several fringe players last term showed how far the club still are from being ready to go toe-to-toe for titles across all fronts.
Mbaye would not solve everything overnight. But he would drag the rebuild in the right direction.
A transfer that ticks all the boxes
The appeal is not just about goals and potential.
Because of his age, Mbaye will count as homegrown by the time he needs to be registered in Liverpool’s Premier League squad. That matters. Homegrown slots have become a real headache at Anfield, limiting flexibility and complicating recruitment plans.
Landing an 18-year-old international winger who can develop inside the club’s system while easing that registration pressure is exactly the sort of double win sporting directors crave.
Then there is PSG’s stance. The French champions are understood to be open to moving Mbaye on, a rare situation where a club of Liverpool’s stature can swoop for a high-upside talent without getting dragged into a prolonged auction.
And the final, simple detail: he is a natural right-winger.
In a summer defined by questions about life after Salah, that alone makes Ibrahim Mbaye a name to watch very closely as Liverpool’s next decisive move.
