Liverpool are out there for a centre-back, with a £42m bid for Lille teenager Leny Yoro rejected, experiences Spanish outlet Mundo Deportivo, translated by LFC Switch Room.
The 18-year-old loved an excellent debut season in France final day trip and is considered the most effective prospects of his age on the planet.
The experiences counsel his membership are holding out for £50m, which Actual Madrid is not going to pay, leaving Liverpool because the potential frontrunners…
With Joel Matip departing on a free and Virgil van Dijk approaching his thirty third birthday, Liverpool have to strengthen the defence, even with the emergence of Jarrell Quansah.
The 21-year-old Englishman began forward of Ibou Konate on the finish of final season, with Jurgen Klopp preferring Quansah’s calmness in possession, however Arne Slot will doubtless give each a clear slate within the battle begin subsequent to van Dijk.
Given we’ve additionally received Joe Gomez who can do a job at centre-back, a participant of Yoro’s potential becoming a member of the group would significantly increase our defensive choices.
It will additionally increase the potential for Slot to play with three on the again, though it’s not one thing he did fairly often whereas managing in Holland.
The primary switch window for a brand new supervisor is all the time vital, however not like with earlier bosses, Slot will solely have a say within the incomings and outgoings slightly than be the driving drive.
Michael Edwards, Richard Hughes and the scouts are in control of recruitment and it will let Slot get to work on the coaching floor as a substitute. Keep in mind, for the primary time in Liverpool’s historical past, he’s been named ‘head coach,’ not ‘supervisor’.
Centre-midfield signings
It’ll be mighty attention-grabbing to see how properly Stefan Bajcetic does in pre-season. He was rising as the most effective younger midfielders on the planet the season earlier than final, however accidents and rising issues led him to overlook principally the whole thing of the final marketing campaign.
He’s immensely proficient and is now an actual bodily specimen in addition. Quansah and Connor Bradley cemented themselves as real first-team choices final time period and saved Liverpool hundreds of thousands within the course of. It’s now as much as Bajcetic to show he can do the identical. He can undoubtedly compete with Wataru Endo for a beginning spot.
Slot may use Trent Alexander-Arnold within the double-pivot, which then creates points positionally for the likes of Ryan Gravenberch, Curtis Jones, Dom Szoboszlai and Harvey Elliott. Will they develop into playmakers? Be utilized in large attacking roles?
Whereas we’d all like one other elite defensive midfielder, we have already got plenty of numbers within the center – particularly with Tyler Morton getting back from mortgage.
