Liverpool will focus on midfield over the course of the next two transfer windows, that much is clear after the harrowing spectacle of injuries and falling standards the department has suffered of late.
Having said that, one could not envy the wandering eyes of Julian Ward and Co. moving on to Ukraine and Shakhtar Donetsk, where previously linked star Mykhaylo Mudryk currently shines.
Perhaps even for a fee in the £30-40m range, the Reds might have considered snapping up such a talent in the near future.
However, with Carlo Nicolini, the team’s sporting director, valuing the striker closer to £86.3m, it seems rather unlikely that the Merseysiders will come up with an offer any time soon.
“Is 40 million euros enough to buy it? We don’t talk about these figures,” the club leader told Calciomercato (via TEAMtalk) “Not for 50 million euros, nor did we call the president to inform him of the offer. We value Mudryk more than Manchester United’s Antony, who cost €100m.”
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Although an asking price of over £80m for an attacker will surely prove unfeasible at this stage of the season, that shouldn’t necessarily rule out the club making a mid-term transfer.
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That possibility, of course, depends on a big if: IF the recruitment team can identify a midfielder (which other department are we going to prioritise?) capable of providing Liverpool with the base they need for the rest of the season. .
What does that mean concretely?
Jurgen Klopp is said to be interested in an option capable of tactical versatility, filling the roles of No. 8 and No. 6 effectively (which, in turn, means providing defensive stability and a potential outlet for creativity) and , one might imagine, to be durable.
Durability, of all of them, is perhaps the most desired trait after Gini Wijnaldum, Liverpool’s unbreakable man, departed for PSG.
Technically we have the money to spend (potentially in the region of £80m plus if need be too) after failing to expand our midfield options in the summer,
It just all depends on that big YES from the right man being available on the market at the right time.
We hope that the circumstances that brought Luis Díaz to the club will be repeated again, a signing that revitalized our quadruple hunt last year.
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