Kiefer MacDonald

Not we need.

I think Liverpool will buy at least two wingers.

I think it would take two forwards.

I think it would take selling Cody Gatpo from him to buy three forwards.

That's my hypothesis for the day.

I know you will argue that Liverpool should buy more than that, but what do you think the club will say to themselves, given the constraints they'll put on budgets, we have to get at least the sum, or they say, not what you say.

Who are you excluding from the five again, Rio and Gamora?

Right, okay, I'll stay with you on this one because I know it's a subject dear to your heart.

I suppose it is mine as well.

I think there's a couple of X factors in this, and both will make you bristle.

I think they do me to a degree.

So the degree to which they treat, well, you've cited Ngamoa already as one of these sort of quasi-options.

Florian Wurz will also, I think, be talked about internally as a quasi-forward option.

And I think so, and I'm most strongly against this, Jeremy Frimpong will be talked as a quasi-forward option.

So I think internally...

I fear, I suspect, that they will think four is enough, plus the quasi-options of Engamoa, who have I just cited, Wurz, Frimpong.

Actually, well, I think they'll park Ikitiko for this purpose, for this season.

They have to.

My hypothesis, so I'll put it to you again, Kiefer, is that we will buy two.

Unless Gakpo is sold as well.