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The year of 2020 will be a big one. The small matter of a US presidential election will take place, while Great Britain could face a general election of its own. The Olympics in Tokyo, the European Championships in, well, everywhere, and the Fast and Furious franchise will somehow release an eighth sequel.

That's if the world is still standing at that point, with global warming, the manual destruction of the Amazon rainforest and Fast and Furious 9 all looming.

A potentially huge event is also possible: Liverpool making a big signing in the summer transfer window.

After contentment with what the squad possessed this past summer – a decision currently vindicated, given the Reds sit eight points clear at the top of the Premier League – there is both a desire and expectation for Liverpool to show its considerable weight at the end of the 2019/20 campaign.

Fans in the social media realm have reacted to this with one simple meme: the name of the player they want Liverpool to sign, followed by '2020', as if it were an election campaign.

Kylian Mbappé opts to control Liverpool on the latest FIFA game? Mbappé 2020.

Jadon Sancho is pictured with Joe Gomez and Trent Alexander-Arnold during training with England? Sancho 2020.

So, what if these players actually were possibilities, and could be elected as a Liverpool signing in the summer?

Something all election candidates need is a manifesto.

In the first of a new series, liverpool.com will provide a mock manifesto for several of Europe's best, and most intriguing, players; all with the design to convince you, the reader, this is the new arrival Anfield needs next summer.

Forget Trump, Sanders and Warren 2020 - this is the only race worth winning.

In our first manifesto, Kristian Walsh explored Sancho, and how the Borussia Dortmund man could be the right choice for next summer, and beyond.

Now it's Dan Morgan's turn, as he tells you why Kylian Mbappé is the source of all our hopes and dreams, and he has a strong message for those thinking of looking elsewhere in the race.

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(Image: Photo by Michael Regan - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)

Don't blame me, I voted for Kylian Mbappé

With a line taken straight out of The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror VII." The point could not be more simple, don't be that guy or girl that stops Liverpool Football Club from signing the greatest football prospect on the planet.

You've heard the quite frankly feeble argument for Jaydon Sancho, an undoubtedly talented prospect, yet one who cannot hold a candle to the tour-de-force which is Kylian Mbappé. You will hear more similarly lame cases made for another footballer in the coming days, but Mbappé's name is the only one which should ring out on the streets of Liverpool and beyond.

The player sells himself, he is the peoples choice, the man to carry us forward as a football club. He is us and we are him. You don't need a reminder as to why he is simply the only candidate for the job, but if you did, here is three:

A NEW DIMENSION

Many are now wondering what the evolution to Liverpool's attacking trio of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mané and Roberto Firmino is, where and when it changes and how it improves? Imagine then, the player who adds that extra dimension being someone the calibre of Mbappé.

He is in every sense a Jürgen Klopp player and would thrive in the German's team. He can operate on either flank and his terrifying pace would send opposition sides into meltdown before they'd stepped foot on the pitch. Currently the Reds have Divock Origi and Rhian Brewster in reserve and needs bolstering in time for the 2020/21 season. Whether we want to admit it or not, Mbappé is the answer to every question ever asked.

A NEW POSTER BOY

This club loves a goalscorer, and their likely new kit manufacturers Nike already have the 20-year-old as one of their prized assets, it is a match made in commercial heaven. The two go hand in hand, Mbappé lights up the Premier League in Liverpool red while the sponsorships deals flood in, and the Kop get to laud their new French prince. It makes too much sense, it is a one off opportunity, make it happen.

His friendship with NBA star LeBron James is also an interesting angle, especially given evidence revealed at the UK High Court for the club's kit deal battle between Nike and New Balance. An e-mail from the club commercial director Billy Hogan read: “We specifically envisage deriving a major benefit from working with LeBron James because basketball and the NBA is very popular in China.”

In court, Hogan said that discussions had been had with LeBron James via Fenway Sports Group group, although he also conceded Nike's terms for the sponsorship deal do not "say specifically about a co-branded product with LeBron James."

THE MESSAGE OF CHAMPIONS

There was a time, not so long back, that signing such a player of Mbappé's standing was thought of as fanciful, deluded and frankly impossible. Yet Liverpool are the European champions, they are currently eight points clear and might just win the Premier League for the first time in 30 years.

Many lamented a lack of transfer activity this summer, but what a message it would send out should the Reds end 2019/20 with success and go on to sign the greatest, I need to repeat this people, greatest footballing prospect on the planet. The world's of Manchester United, Chelsea and others will also remain in flux, and there is a crucial opportunity to send out the biggest message of all.

Ask yourself this, in ten years time do you still want to be regretting the decision to side with candidates provided by Kristian Walsh, Daniel Austin and Joel Rabinowitz? Where does that leave Liverpool? Where does that leave you?

If others make such a mistake, make sure you don't. Make sure you're able to utter the phrase:

Don't blame me, I voted for Kylian Mbappé.