Liverpool are planning to focus on a brand new centre-back in January
Liverpool are struggling to search out consistency this season, regardless of spending closely in the summertime switch window.
The Reds signed the likes of Alexander Isak, Hugo Ekitike, Florian Wirtz and others to strengthen their squad after profitable the league title final season.
Nevertheless, their season has turned out to be an enormous catastrophe to date and so they have already misplaced floor within the Premier League title race.
Arne Slot’s crew are presently 11 factors behind league leaders Arsenal and difficult for the title this season is proving unrealistic for them.
The type of crew leaders Virgil Van Dijk and Mohamed Salah has suffered immensely, each of whom signed new Liverpool contracts earlier than the beginning of the season.
Arne Slot desires extra new signings at Liverpool
Slot is now on the brink of make modifications to his squad as he desires so as to add extra high quality gamers within the January switch window.
Excessive on the agenda at Anfield is a brand new centre-back signing, somebody who can remedy the defensive disaster of the Merseyside membership after the poor type of Van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate this season.
Mick Brown, who has inside data on switch dealins, advised Soccer Insider:
“I’m advised the supervisor nonetheless isn’t glad along with his squad.
“There are just a few positions he nonetheless feels they may strengthen in, regardless of all the cash they spent in the summertime, as a result of they haven’t been adequate not too long ago.
“He desires so as to add one other centre-half to his squad, that’s no shock to anyone.
“Whenever you look via this Liverpool squad, there are nonetheless three or 4 positions the place you’re feeling they may strengthen, and it appears the supervisor feels the identical.
“A centre-back is one, then are their full-backs adequate, then a midfielder, Salah hasn’t been performing so possibly a ahead, there are lots of issues there.
“It was an enormous window for them in the summertime, and it could possibly be one other in January as a result of there are just a few query marks nonetheless round this squad.”
Slot nonetheless believes that he can flip across the season for Liverpool, regardless of his job changing into unsure on the membership resulting from their disastrous kind.
Out of the 14 Premier League matches they’ve performed this season, they’ve already misplaced 6 of them.
Evaluate that to final season, they solely suffered 4 league defeats once they gained the Premier League title.
Might the Reds make a transfer for Marc Guehi?
Their new defensive signing could possibly be Crystal Palace centre-back Marc Guehi, who has been closely linked with a transfer to Anfield.
The English defender was near becoming a member of the Reds in the summertime when Oliver Glasner pulled the plug on the deal within the final minute.
Nevertheless, with Guehi changing into a free agent subsequent summer season, Palace might determine to money in on him somewhat than dropping him without spending a dime subsequent 12 months.
