Some comfort for us who don’t own Jota:
- he’s never been nailed in the team and will share minutes with the other attackers even when starting
- Salah comming back will take minutes from him
- he’s extremely injury prone
- he‘s overperformed his numbers to an unsustainable level since he came back from injury in January:
4 goals from 6 shots in the last 5 games (0,82xG total) 1,2 shots per game actually very low and totally unsustainable even for the best finishers in the history of the game.
3 assists from 7 key passes the last 5 games (1,07xA total) (For reference: in the same period Odegaard has 0 assists from 19 key passes and 2,53xA)
His numbers are actually not even a little impressive, plus I’d be very surprised if he plays anything close to 3 x 90 before everyone will get rid of all their Liverpool players.
In other words: not a must
That said, every player we don’t own might punish us.