Sky Sports’ Jamie Carragher believes Yan Diomande possesses similar traits to Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane amid links to Liverpool.

Liverpoolare among a number of clubs interested in the Ivory Coast winger, and have indicated they are prepared to pay up to £86m. 

RB Leipzig would be open to selling Yan Diomande for an estimated fee of  £112m [€130m], Meziesblog understands.

“I thought he was fantastic in the first game of the World Cup. Less so in the second game, but still was a real danger,” Carragher said.

“I think what you’d be buying is potential. It’s not what he is right now. He’s a 19-year-old kid. He’s a young man.

“But when you look at him physically, he looks like he’s got all those attributes.

“You think of the success Liverpool have had in the past with powerful, quick, wide men. 

“You think of [Mohamed] Salah and Sadio Mane, especially those two.

“He certainly looks like he’s got those type of traits. That’s a big thing that Liverpool lacked last season, pace in those wide areas.

“They’ve already got a signing in now from Spain, from Osasuna, Victor Munoz.

“Maybe they want a little bit of pace on the other side as well. I think it’s pretty obvious where Liverpool were lacking last season.

“That looks like where they’re going in the market. But is he worth it? Time will tell. As I said, Liverpool spent big last summer.

“Right now,  a year on, we probably would say those players don’t look worth it.”