It is understood that Liverpool’s scouts were very impressed by Hwang Hee-chan’s talent, if a report is to be believed.
This comes courtesy of Football Insider, with the Wolves star, once flippantly described by a forgetful Pep Guardiola as “the Korean boy”, having scored 14 goal contributions in 21 appearances this season.
Tottenham are also understood to be monitoring the centre-forward’s progress in 2023/24 since his central switch to Gary O’Neil’s side.
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What do Liverpool need?
While Hee-chan’s ability to play in the attacking line would surely be of interest to a Liverpool team that will be missing Mo Salah potentially for most of January, it is difficult to imagine a 27-year-old fitting in. profile.
Given that there will come a stage where we will at least have to think about future planning for the right-wing position, we would expect our recruitment team to prefer a signing under the age of 25.
That’s not to discredit the Wanderers hitman, who has been a phenomenal asset to the Midlands team (not to mention the FPL players) this year.
It would simply represent a sharp change of direction in our recruiting activities.
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