{"id":509087,"date":"2026-02-23T14:45:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=509087"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:46:11","slug":"heskey-sees-pulisic-as-a-salah-replacement-in-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/heskey-sees-pulisic-as-a-salah-replacement-in-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Heskey sees Pulisic as Salah&#8217;s replacement in Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool&#8217;s former star Emile Heskey claims that USMNT forward Christian Pulisic could be a useful replacement for Mohamed Salah at his ex-club. Pulisic already has experience in the EPL as part of Chelsea and now shines for AC Milan in Serie A.<\/p>\n<p>A return to the Premier League is on the table for the American star as the team from Anfield will look for another winger in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed has a deal with the Reds until 2027, but his performance this season is beyond disappointing, as Salah\u2019s last goal in the EPL was back on November 1<sup>st<\/sup> last year.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors are that Liverpool will try to sell him in the summer in Saudi Arabia, and that means that they will invest money to bring another star winger to Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>According to Heskey, Pulisic is a great choice for his replacement: \u201cI like him a lot despite the fact that he didn\u2019t score as many goals as other wingers, but his contribution is phenomenal, and he is very useful on the pitch for the whole team.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dominik Szoboszlai will leave Liverpool if Real Madrid makes an offer to sign him this summer.<\/p>\n<p>~ Former Liverpool player Emile Heskey says <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e1I0noBy4O\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/e1I0noBy4O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; In Today Sport (@intodaysport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intodaysport\/status\/2025970998407790980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool&#8217;s former star Emile Heskey claims that USMNT forward Christian Pulisic could be a useful replacement for Mohamed Salah at his ex-club. Pulisic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":509088,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16889,16722],"news_category":[],"gn_keywords":[19227,17887],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Reds legend backed Christian to replace Mohamed in the team.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509090,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509087\/revisions\/509090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509087"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=509087"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=509087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}