Liverpool at the moment are mentioned to be “pursuing” a specialist No.6, with that participant being from exterior of the Premier League.
It has, after all, been the subject of the summer time – once more – and to this point there have been few credible hyperlinks to defensive midfielders / No.6s.
Gamers akin to Porto’s Alan Varela have been considerably linked, together with Ederson of Atalanta, however past that the hyperlinks have been few and much between.
Now, in a uncommon replace, the extremely dependable reporter David Ornstein of the Athletic stories that the membership are actively pursuing an unnamed participant who relies exterior of the Premier League.
Meaning Varela and Ederson would tick that field, however it could rule out Wolves‘ Joao Gomes who has additionally been loosely linked.
What has been obvious in these opening friendlies underneath the brand new coach, is that Arne Slot‘s model of midfield doesn’t seem to swimsuit or require a No.6 who merely breaks up play; the participant is required to be on the ball increasingly efficient within the construct up play.
What Arne Slot has mentioned
Slot used three totally different gamers because the deepest midfielder within the Reds’ three friendlies within the USA; Wataru Endo, Dominik Szoboszlai and Ryan Gravenberch.
On the place, Slot informed reporters within the US: “Ryan did rather well in that place [against United] and we’ve different choices as effectively.
“One of the best ways to guage it’s when we’ve all of the gamers again and we nonetheless haven’t, however a membership like Liverpool at all times retains its eye open to see what’s accessible.”
He added, on signings generally: “The bar is absolutely excessive for brand new signings as a result of we’ve so many good gamers.
“It’s not really easy to first discover a participant to fulfill these requirements after which ask, ‘is he accessible?’.
“Then we’ve to seek out an settlement with them, so it’s not at all times straightforward to discover a participant who may also help us however Richard is working onerous on it and let’s see what comes from this.”
With Liverpool now again on Merseyside, the place the total squad will be a part of up for the primary time on Tuesday, it appears switch enterprise will lastly step up a gear now.
To date, the one enterprise Liverpool have accomplished this summer time is to mortgage out two gamers!
