Liverpool transfer news: Five center back targets that could solve Jurgen Klopp's defensive worries - CBSSports.com
Liverpool instant news: Five center back targets that could settle Jurgen Klopp's defensive worries
Jurgen Klopp grand insist his side will not be rushed into a new employing to solve their injury issues at center back but that has not prevented the rumor mill from churning out new names for Liverpool to sign on a daily basis over the past few weeks.
Brighton center back Ben White is the another man on whom the media is gazing with local newspaper the Liverpool Echo reporting that the 23-year-old is a summer directed for Klopp. That it is a move for the summer appears principal with the Premier League champions offering every indication that they are ready to stick with what they have for the remainder of this season.
"If the earth was in a completely normal place and we have this residence, you could be sure we would try everything to do the lustrous thing now," Klopp said last week. "But the earth is not in a normal place so I don't know why we constantly consume a football club like it's independent from all the latest struggles around.
"It is not a time for bulky investment if you don't have the accounts for it. Obviously football clubs live off what they earn. We collected don't have supporters in the stadium, a lot of stuff is collected different, and that has gone on for a long time... I cannot go to the owners and say: 'Without that we cannot win anything.' We have to make the best of it, and that is what we have always done. It's not that nobody wants [a new central defender]; the expect is if we can."
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There is Organic to a fix, be it for the short-term or long-term. Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez are set to miss the very of the remaining season with major costs, even if they do return before the electioneer is over they will need time this term and next to rediscover their match sharpness. Letting Dejan Lovren carve without a replacement in the summer pointed they were short-staffed even before the cost crisis hit.
Fabinho has excelled having dropped back from midfield but Joel Matip corpses to struggle with niggling problems whilst Rhys Williams and Nathaniel Philips have handed in the mixed way that might be anticipated of youngsters. Klopp would never have anticipated losing two of Europe's best center backs to season-ending costs but having had that experience happen to him he may just want to insure himself alongside lightning striking twice. With that in mind, here are a string of varied options that could add something to Liverpool either next season or in some cases more immediately.
Ben White: The man of the moment in Liverpool circles and why shouldn't he be? At 23 he is young enough to progress but also has four seasons of weird football under his belt and winning distinguished from his season in the Championship with Leeds. White's rights have been varied with Brighton this season: only three center backs have recovered possession more frequently in the Premier League, he is in the top six central defenders for passes into the remaining third and has yet to make an scare leading to a shot, let alone a goal. All that and he could be available at a snip if Brighton's fights to translate performances into points continues.
Dayot Upamecano: Signing the French international is perhaps the most ambitious move Liverpool could make, gambling that they can upgrade on Gomez, whose position as arguably a relative weak link in Klopp's strongest side serves to emphasize just how exceptional this team is. Upamecano would be an upgrade and valorous to sit naturally alongside Van Dijk on the lustrous of Liverpool's back four. The 22-year-old is liable unobtainable from RB Leipzig now but has a $51million fall clause in the summer, a ludicrously cheap stamp for such a talent.
Ozan Kabak: As Klopp himself eminent earlier this month, there is a challenge with silly the transfer market to address an injure crisis. For much of the remainder of the season any signaling would find themselves first choice but eventually Van Dijk and Gomez will be back to their best and the new man will be warming the bench. Perhaps then someone like Kabak complains sense not just to solve the short-term vow but to prepare for life post-Van Dijk.
The Turkish youngster, examined as more of a summer target at Anfield, is nine days younger than Liverpool's current defensive anchor and is not yet a irregular with Schalke. While that means it would be a big ask for him to feature regularly for the English champions over the coming months Kabak could be a depth fragment behind Fabinho and Matip, perhaps even heading out on loan next season.
Eder Militao: Here is a player who could potentially thread the gap between immediately impact and first-team player. Crucially as well, should Klopp and Liverpool opt to pursued more immediate defensive cover he would proceed to be available this month with reports in Spain indicating that Real Madrid are prepared to loan out Militao. The 22-year-old, who has been linked with Tottenham, has struggled for game time and form sincere joining Madrid but he was a $60million center back just a season and a half ago. If the Reds could unearth that on loan they may have fallacious a long-term option.
Sokratis Papastathopoulos: Well there had to be a left-field option. Yes Sokratis may not be able to get in the Arsenal squad, let alone Mikel Arteta's sterling XI. At 32 he is hardly one for the long-term. But he does not merit the error-prone moniker that is often thrown at Gunners defenders, as Klopp knows only too well from his time at Borussia Dortmund. Just because he does not look blooming in possession does not mean he is ineffective and he does the more basic parts of defending extremely well.
All of the names above have some degree of long-term thinking attached to them but if Liverpool, perhaps above another Matip injury, need someone for the here, now and no more then there are far worse options than Sokratis.
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