Liverpool are having to weigh up headline targets for quite a lot of totally different positions this January, however their dream defensive candidates look considerably out of attain.
The necessity to have a look at centre-backs arrives because of Virgil van Dijk having entered the ultimate few months of his contract, mirroring the conditions each Trent Alexander-Arnold and Mohamed Salah additionally discover themselves in.
Talking solely to FourFourTwo on January 13, Ben Jacobs has revealed which positions the Reds are concentrating on primarily, and a number of the Merserysiders’ dream targets for these roles.
Liverpool NOT within the driving seat to land their dream targets
Jacobs divulged that Liverpool have ‘lengthy admired’ Cheslea’s Levi Colwill, and have additionally been linked to Everton’s Jarrad Branthwaite, however revealed that neither man is advancing in direction of turning into a sensible goal at this stage.
He went on to say that, alongside centre-back, the membership would additionally wish to recruit a right-sided attack-minded participant and a defensive midfielder.
Jacobs stated: “We all know with the centre-back place that Liverpool have lengthy admired Levi Colwill at Chelsea, however they simply do not assume he is out there available in the market, so at this stage, they don’t seem to be ready to waste their time.
“I feel that hyperlinks with Jarrad Branthwaite are nonetheless extra concrete for Manchester United than Liverpool, and the identical will be stated with Ousmane Diomande and Chelsea, slightly than Liverpool as nicely.
“So there’s a number of targets at this stage. However once more, if Van Dijk commits, then the left-sided centre-back, particularly, won’t be one thing that they’ve to consider in January. I feel in the summertime, it’s probably they add a centre-back.”
Increasing on the necessity for a no.6, Jacobs claimed that Martin Zubimendi, who snubbed Liverpool in the summertime to stay at Actual Sociedad, continues to be one to observe.
In FourFourTwo’s opinion, the whole lot at Anfield in the intervening time hinges on these three up-in-the-air contracts.
Shedding one will likely be painful, however a membership of Liverpool’s measurement ought to have the ability to cope. Shedding all three on the identical time, all totally free, won’t solely enormously hamper the standard of the Reds’ squad, however it is going to additionally depart them with a trio of pricey gaps to plug in the summertime, with no further funds to spend.
With a finite sum of money out there, it’s troublesome to see how Liverpool’s enterprise gained’t largely be led by what transpires within the coming weeks and months with these three contracts.