Liverpool Transfers: 10 Dream Replacements For Luis Suarez

Yves Logghe/AP/Press Association ImagesIt's now official: Luis Suarez will be a Barcelona player next season (albeit after a few months sitting in the shadows - or his new Spanish apartment - waiting for his global ban to finish in November), as long as he passes his medical (surely a formality) and agrees personal terms (again, it would be a shock if he hadn't already). Liverpool will now be £60-70m better off, though the departure of their wayward talisman will mean that manager Brendan Rodgers will have to extend his transfer dealings further than what was initially planned. Suarez might take the considerable headaches his attitude causes to Barcelona, but he will also take his attacking threat, his creativity, and most importantly of all, his goals, and Liverpool need to score as many goals as they possibly can if last season's surprisingly leaky back-line record is anything to go by (and remember, the defensive reinforcements are yet to happen, even if Dejan Lovren is apparently ear-marked). So Liverpool need a replacement - not necessarily a like-for-like option, as Suarez would not be easy to replace in those terms - but at the very least a prolific, powerful forward who will compliment what the club already possesses in terms of personnel. We've already discussed the fact that Rodgers might well be ready to bring Lazar Markovic into the club to bolster his attacking options, especially from out wide, but the club need to fill the hole in their goals for column that will open with Suarez's departure. Some might suggest that Rickie Lambert is already in at Anfield as a pre-emptive move, but the former Southampton man already offered a different style to the rest of the Liverpool squad - Suarez included - and he is not the solution to that particular question. So who is, and how will Liverpool best spend their bloated kitty?