In case you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past year, which might be an entirely reasonable reaction to the current state of the world if we’re being entirely honest, you may have heard that Liverpool will be losing a few players to the Africa Cup of Nations.

Key for many will be the departures of Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mané early in January, a situation that has seen the Reds linked off and on with potential attacking reinforcements, with today’s supposed target being FC Porto’s 24-year-old winger Luis Diaz.