Liverpool managed to get a last-minute mortgage deal completed for Arthur Melo on deadline day to bolster their injury-ridden midfield, nevertheless, a brand new replace has emerged on the membership’s pursuit of a goal for the long run.
What’s the newest?
That’s in line with James Pearce, who confirmed in a current article for The Athletic that Liverpool will make a transfer for Borussia Dortmund wonderkid Jude Bellingham subsequent yr.
Pearce claims that the 19-year-old stays on the prime of the membership’s transfer want record however have been by no means going to have the ability to full a deal for Bellingham after Erling Haaland left the Bundesliga membership for Manchester City.
The journalist goes on to disclose Liverpool hope to signal the £103m star in 2023.
It’s a giant danger for Klopp
After failing to safe a deal with Aurelien Tchouameni at first of the summer time, with the midfielder making a move to Real Madrid as a substitute, it’s a giant danger for Jurgen Klopp to put all of their hopes on signing Bellingham subsequent summer time.
The Dortmund sporting director has already claimed that the German membership wish to maintain their star participant past 2023 in an interview with Sky90 (by way of Evening Standard):
“I hope that Jude Bellingham will stay at BVB beyond 2023. I can see he feels super comfortable with us.”
Not solely is the participant’s present membership eager to maintain maintain of their participant however Chelsea, Manchester United and Real Madrid are all named as potential suitors alongside the Merseysiders fascinated by snapping up the midfielder subsequent summer time.
It comes as no shock that Bellingham is a participant that the Liverpool recruitment staff admires, with the younger expertise rating within the prime 5% of his positional friends within the prime 5 European leagues for assists, touches, dribbles accomplished and progressive passes acquired over the previous three hundred and sixty five days.
James Milner, Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are all within the final yr of their respective contracts, and captain Jordan Henderson is now nicely into his 30s, that means that constructing the way forward for the midfield has by no means been a extra urgent problem on the membership – one thing Bellingham can play a component in fixing ought to he transfer to Merseyside.
With that being stated, there have to be no time or assets wasted in terms of getting ready affords and securing a deal for Bellingham subsequent summer time, as Liverpool might be in no place to lose out on one other extremely anticipated midfield goal.