Moses Simon found himself on some Liverpool fans’ radars back in 2018.
The 26-year-old attacker was playing for Gent at the time and claimed that Liverpool were interested in signing him.
As it goes, nothing ever came of the Reds’ reported desire to bring him to Anfield.
But Michael Edwards, the Premier League club’s sporting director, certainly spotted something because these days, Simon is quite the player.
Now at Nantes, the Nigeria international is on course for a brilliant season in Ligue 1.
So far, Simon has six goals and one assist from 13 league outings for the French club, meaning he has more goal involvements under his belt than a certain Neymar, who is also a left-sided attacker.
Not only that, but Simon has created 33 chances – the third-highest in Ligue 1 – and that’s a whopping 14 more than the Paris Saint-Germain attacker [19].
Nobody is saying that Simon is a better footballer than Neymar but it does illustrate that Liverpool were right to be interested in him.
And with Sadio Mane needing a long-term replacement, perhaps even the Merseyside outfit could take another look at him next summer.
He’ll need to pick up his goal return because even if he’s setting up a tonne, scoring once in 13 games wouldn’t get him a trial at Liverpool let alone a contract.
But at 26, Simon – who cost only £4.5 million in 2020 – can still get a lot better and it’ll be interesting to see if his name gets linked to Premier League clubs come January.
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