Rumours abound that Andy Robertson could leave Liverpool at the end of the season, and former Reds star Danny Murphy has named his preferred replacement for the Scotland international.
Robertson is still a key part of Arne Slot's high flying Liverpool side this season, but at 30 years old the time may soon come for the club to seek out suitable cover for the left-back.
“I think Liverpool do need some cover there and they’ve got a choice to make whether they try and get someone who can compete with him and push him to hit the levels we know he can or they go for someone who they know can overtake him and become the new left-back," Murphy told MyBettingSites.co.uk. "That’s something the recruitment team has to decide.”
If the Premier League leaders are looking to replace Robertson outright, Murphy has one particular player in mind.
“If I had to choose I’d go Alphonso Davies, I think he’s got the potential to be one of the best left-backs in the world," Murphy said of Davies, the Bayern Munich and Canada star who is out of contract at the end of the season and has been linked with a move to Real Madrid.
"Obviously Alphonso Davies is a difficult one because he’s rumoured to be going elsewhere."
For more realistic options, Murphy named current Premier League players Antonee Robinson (Fulham) and Milos Kerkez (Bournemouth) as players Liverpool could bring in to provide competition for Robertson.
"I think one of the other two would be really good competition for him and again with the amount of games [Liverpool] play, it’s not like they wouldn’t be getting game time," Murphy said.
“I really like Robinson at Fulham. I’ve watched him a lot and I think he’s a powerhouse of a left-back and he doesn’t really fit the criteria in terms of age, value for selling on later if that was the case for Liverpool to go for a player of that age."
“Kerkez is a bit younger," he added. "Another great overlapping full-back who could learn from Robertson and maybe get minutes in other competitions. So that would probably be more realistic."