A trusted Liverpool-focused journalist has given his backing to current switch hyperlinks involving the Reds and a present Premier League participant.
Final week, Algerian reporter Abdel Hamad claimed that Arne Slot’s aspect are in pole place to snap up Rayan Ait-Nouri from Wolves, though some LFC supporters could have had reservations over the validity of the supply.
Nevertheless, the dependable David Lynch has now corroborated these rumours, citing a robust present relationship between the Merseyside membership and the 23-year-old’s representatives.
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Talking to Anfield Index in regards to the hyperlinks with the Molineux left-back, the journalist stated: “I believe there’s undoubtedly legs on this one. He’s been linked so regularly lately and Liverpool have an excellent relationship together with his company, so I believe there’s undoubtedly one thing in that.”
Nevertheless, he added the caveat {that a} transfer for Ait-Nouri would in all probability be contingent on Kostas Tsimikas leaving the Reds, stating: “You possibly can’t simply preserve including left-backs and hope it really works itself out, Liverpool by no means function like that.”
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Ait-Nouri impressed for Wolves final season, chipping in with three targets and two assists from left-back as Gary O’Neil’s aspect steered properly away from the relegation fears which many pundits had forecast on the outset of the marketing campaign.
The Algerian is a delight to look at when surging ahead, rating among the many high 2% of positonal friends in Europe’s 5 important leagues over the previous yr for profitable take-ons per sport with 2.4 (FBref), whereas his tackling common (2.74 per match) can be among the many greatest all through the continent.
As Lynch rightly factors out, although, it appears unlikely that Liverpool would push strongly for the 23-year-old until it appeared sure that one other participant in that place – on this case Tsimikas – was about to depart.
In a parallel to the current discourse about Anthony Gordon presumably changing 27-year-old Luis Diaz on the left flank in our assault within the long-term, Ait-Nouri is 4 years the junior of the Greece worldwide, who’s regularly needed to play backup to Andy Robertson all through his time at Anfield.
We wouldn’t utterly low cost an strategy for the Wolves defender over the subsequent two months, though it’d doubtless want different dominoes to fall earlier than a critical transfer is made.
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