Liverpool are in the marketplace for new midfielders in 2023 and have been linked with a variety of youthful prospects who could lastly take away the large gray cloud hanging over Anfield at the second with the Reds struggling certainly one of the worst begins to a Premier League marketing campaign in a decade.
After 17 top-flight outings, Liverpool are sixth in the league desk dropping to Brentford, Leeds United and Nottingham Forest to call a number of already this season, a place the membership haven’t discovered themselves in typically since the arrival of Jurgen Klopp.
The Merseysiders have loved over half a decade of success with the German coach – successful a mess of trophies together with their first-ever Premier League title in 2020, so the Liverpool boss finds himself in an unfamiliar state of affairs and at a crossroads with his present squad.
Naby Keita, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and James Milner will all be out of contract this season while remaining midfielders Jordan Henderson and Thiago Alcantara are properly into the again finish of their respective careers.
That leaves Klopp with Fabinho and the inexperienced choices of Curtis Jones and Harvey Elliott who’re nonetheless extremely younger, sharpening their craft and taking part in very related roles between them.
The Reds have been linked with quite a few midfielders with Jude Bellingham and Enzo Fernandez two of the most high-profile and costly gamers to be named as switch targets.
However, with FSG lately placing the membership up on the market and sporting director Julian Ward set to resign in the summer season, the instant switch enterprise has been put up in the air. That stated, the latest signing of Cody Gakpo is a promising signal that the house owners are nonetheless eager to reinvest.
One participant who has been persistently linked with a transfer to Merseyside since the summer season is Brighton and Hove Albion midfielder Moises Caicedo, a younger expertise who has an eye-watering price ticket of £85m.
The Ecuadorian ace – who was hailed a “top talent” by journalist Roberto Rojas and a “terrific athlete” by South American knowledgeable Tim Vickery – has rapidly turn into certainly one of the hottest younger prospects in the Premier League ever since he joined the Seagulls in 2021.
Over 16 appearances this season, the 21-year-old has been in chic kind, scoring one purpose, registering one help and tallying up an 88% move completion fee.
On high of that, the Brighton ace has been a bodily and sturdy presence in central areas, making 1.4 interceptions, 2.9 tackles and successful 5.8 duels per sport.
Caicedo has outperformed his positional friends Henderson and Fabinho in lots of attributes this season too, together with purpose contributions (2), progressive passes accomplished (70) and goal-creating actions per 90 minutes (1.19).
He additionally places the Liverpool midfield duo to disgrace in tackles and interceptions mixed (70), dribbles accomplished (35.7%), aerial duels received (67.9%) and ball recoveries (99).
With that being stated, it’s clear that Caicedo can be an enormous improve on a few of the midfielders set to stay at Anfield subsequent season and if the membership can snap up his companies throughout the present switch window, it could revive not solely their efficiency in the centre of the subject however the crew’s whole marketing campaign.