83-goal Liverpool striker wanted by Serie A club, they're ready to enter talks

Liverpool have made a lot of changes to their first-team squad over the last couple of years.

The Anfield outfit have spent well over £600 million on new players and, they're still nine points adrift of first-placed Arsenal.

This obviously isn't the outcome that anyone will have wanted and, it certainly won't be good enough for the standards of Andoni Iraola.

He led Bournemouth to a sixth-place finish last term and, on paper, they have a much worse team than Liverpool.

However, to try and rectify their issues, transfers can be made in the January window and, right now, the Reds are being linked with many different players with some of their own even being rumoured to be on their way out.

Federico Chiesa hasn't had the best time at Liverpool since his arrival.

The attacker was brought in to be Mohamed Salah's back-up but, even when the Egyptian King was injured, he was rarely ever played.

And, even when he was, he was often used out of position as a striker to just plug a gap or try and somehow scrape a draw out of a game for Liverpool.

Sometimes, this plan worked but, in reality, that wasn't what Liverpool brought him in to do.

His lack of appearances have caused many questions to arise about his future and now, according to Calcio Mercato, Lazio are ready to enter negotiations with Liverpool over the transfer of the Italian.

"According to some information gathered exclusively by our editorial team, Lazio is very interested in Federico Chiesa and intends to open negotiations with Liverpool on a loan deal with an option to buy at the end of the current season," they wrote.

Even though Chiesa has barely played for Liverpool, they still need to make sure that they have a replacement lined up for him.

Right now, he's behind Lewis Koumas in the pecking order but, if the Reds want to be able to challenge for silverware, they must ensure that they have top-class players across every position.

And, while Koumas is good, he isn't one of the best attackers in the league which, is exactly what the Reds need if they're wanting to get back to their best.

Several different options have popped up as potential avenues for Liverpool to explore so, when the January or summer transfer window come around, they could easily have one or two options lined up to replace him.

Because, it's now clear that there's no future left for the 83-goal star at Anfield.

That is, especially since Iraola has chosen against using him during his time in charge thus far.