Newcastle to provide Liverpool Carroll replacement

Liverpool have zeroed in on in-form Newcastle star Demba Ba as their search for a striker was put into overdrive by an injury to their Italian star Fabio Borini.

According to a report in The Daily Mail, Ba, who has scored 22 goals in 41 appearances for Newcastle, is Brendan Rodgers’ go-to man now following his interested in Hamburg starlet Son Heung-min ending.

The report says that Rodgers was told the South Korean is not for sale and has now switched his attention to Ba.

The Senegal forward has a £7million get-out clause in his contract which kicks in again in the January transfer window.

The over-reliance on Luis Suarez is not only robbing Liverpool of wins in games they dominate, it is, perhaps, driving Suarez to the ground in search of fouls and penalities far more than other strikers.

Raheem Sterling, Samed Yesil, Ousama Assaidi are all part of the future, yes.

Liverpool need a here and now. Fabio Borini is not it. Not yet. 

Though the temptation for a big man up front to erase the memory of letting Andy Carroll go will make Ba an attractive prospect.

Brendan Rodgers is adamant. It’s tiki-taka or nothing.

This is why, Theo Walcott might be the answer to Liverpool’s goal-scoring and second striker problems.

Walcott, who is 23, is in the final year of his current deal and could leave for free next summer.

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