Liverpool have reportedly recognized three gamers as their prime switch targets for 2025 if a few of the Reds’ present stalwarts depart over the subsequent few months.
Contract affords have been made to Mo Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk as they close to the top of their current offers, and it’s been claimed that the latter might pen new phrases by the top of December, however Richard Hughes seemingly has replacements in thoughts if the opposite two had been to maneuver on.
Who’re the primary switch targets for Liverpool in 2025?
In response to Mark Brus for the Every day Briefing on Tuesday morning, Jeremie Frimpong has been pinpointed as LFC’s ‘prime goal’ at right-back if our present quantity 66 doesn’t agree a brand new contract on Merseyside, with the membership regarded as ‘more and more involved’ in regards to the 26-year-old’s future.
Arne Slot is believed to view the Bayer Leverkusen dynamo as an ‘preferrred match’ for Liverpool’s type of play, and there’s a ‘rising feeling’ that the Bundesliga champions are ‘resigned to’ the Netherlands worldwide leaving in 2025.
Though the Reds are apparently extra assured of tying down Salah to a brand new deal, they’ve reportedly recognized two attainable replacements for the Egyptian in Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Leroy Sane.
Will Liverpool splash out for that trio in 2025?
From this report and an replace by Melissa Reddy on Sky Sports activities yesterday, it appears as if Trent is the least probably of the aforementioned Liverpool trio to agree a contract extension at Anfield.
That will see Frimpong prioritised as FSG’s chief switch mission over the subsequent few months, with the 23-year-old having reportedly been contacted by Slot over a attainable transfer to Merseyside throughout the summer time.
The Dutchman racked up an astonishing tally of 14 objectives and 12 assists from wing-back for Leverkusen final season, and though his return for the present marketing campaign is a little more sedate (two and 7 respectively), it’s evident that he nonetheless poses a real attacking menace from the flanks.
As for Salah’s future, each Liverpool fan will likely be praying that the extremely prolific Egyptian agrees to remain put for a minimum of a pair extra years, but it surely’s no hurt to have a look at youthful alternate options who might change him additional down the road.
Sane has 90 objectives to his title throughout his spells with Bayern Munich and Manchester Metropolis, whereas Kvaratskhelia is on track for a 3rd successive season during which he hits double figures for Napoli in Serie A, having starred of their runaway title triumph in 2022/23.
If the Reds’ quantity 11 had been to depart in 2025, signing both of these would considerably soften the blow, though the hope is that they wouldn’t be wanted at Anfield fairly so quickly.
Hughes nonetheless has a large job on his arms to tie down Van Dijk, Salah and Trent to new contracts, and the end result of that three-pronged saga might closely dictate Liverpool’s switch exercise over the subsequent 12 months.
