Liverpool’s Summer Rebuild: Why Jamie Carragher Might Be Right About Needing Six Signings

As the Premier League season nears its end, the tone at Anfield is more calculated than celebratory. While Arne Slot has guided Liverpool impressively through his debut season, former Reds defender Jamie Carragher’s latest comments in The Telegraph cut through any lingering sentiment. He suggests Liverpool need “as many as six” new signings this summer—an eyebrow-raising figure not typically associated with a team likely to capture the league title.

“When a team win the league, you anticipate one or two big signings to keep the juggernaut moving,” Carragher stated. “In all honesty, when looking at Slot’s squad, it feels like he may need as many as six before next summer. That is a statement you would expect to make about an underperforming team, or one requiring an overhaul.”

This is no knee-jerk analysis. It’s a sober assessment of a squad that, despite performing on the pitch, is treading water off it. The contract situations of Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold—Liverpool’s holy trinity of experience, leadership and game-changing talent—are still unresolved. Their potential exits demand more than just plug-and-play replacements. They demand evolution.

Positional Priorities Signal a New Strategy

Carragher outlines Liverpool’s transfer needs with surgical precision. This isn’t a “wish list”—it’s a strategic roadmap.

“Liverpool need a left-back to compete with Andy Robertson,” he wrote. “Extending the Scottish captain’s Anfield career by reducing the necessity for him to play every game.”

It’s a pragmatic take. At 30, Robertson remains elite but cannot be expected to carry a 50-game workload. Kostas Tsimikas has had flashes, but consistency remains an issue.

Carragher continues, “They need a centre-back to ensure there is no crisis if Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konaté are unavailable.” Both players have carried heavy burdens this season—Konaté’s injury record in particular suggests depth is not a luxury, it’s a necessity.

The midfield? It remains a jigsaw puzzle. “A deep central midfielder so that Ryan Gravenberch and Alexis Mac Allister are not as overburdened next season,” Carragher notes. Wataru Endō has been a surprise package but cannot shoulder the entire defensive midfield responsibility alone at 31.

Further up the pitch, Carragher calls for an attacking midfielder “who will score and create more than Dominik Szoboszlai” and ...