Liverpool set sights on signing “exciting” new £30k-p/w midfielder for Slot

Liverpool are actually eyeing up a brand new midfielder for Arne Slot as they give the impression of being to proceed their sturdy early kind underneath the Dutchman, and switch their gorgeous begin to the season into silverware come the tip of it.

Liverpool’s Champions League dominance

A hat-trick from Luis Diaz helped Arne Slot’s Liverpool side sweep aside Bayer Leverkusen to proceed their 100% file within the Champions League, and the Dutchman’s astonishing acclimatisation to life at Anfield.

Leverkusen, who had misplaced simply two video games in all competitions since Jordan Henderson final pulled on a Liverpool shirt, have been comprehensively brushed apart 4-0 by the Reds, as Cody Gakpo additionally received in on the scoring act.

Talking after the sport, Slot revealed his joy at the result and the efficiency put in by his aspect.

“It was fairly troublesome to press them excessive. However the good factor was that we hardly conceded something and I believe through the first half if there have been possibilities, they have been for us. However [in the] second half we might modify to the sport plan of the primary half, we took a bit extra dangers, we have been higher with the ball as properly. Usually they defend extra in a 5-2-3, now they defended in a 4-4-2, in order that they modified quite a bit and we might modify to that at half-time.”

Now the one aspect with an ideal file within the Champions League this season, they give the impression of being sure to go into the knockout phases, although that file will probably be examined by Actual Madrid of their subsequent recreation.

They’re additionally flying within the Premier League, with Slot and co. prime of the desk after 1 / 4 of the season and two factors away from final season’s Champions Manchester Metropolis, whereas they sit a mammoth seven factors forward of Arsenal.

All this comes within the wake of Liverpool’s failure so as to add a midfielder to their ranks over the summer season, regardless of sturdy hyperlinks with Actual Sociedad midfielder Martin Zubimendi. Now, they may very well be set to revisit the market to signal a brand new goal for the Liverpool engine room.

Liverpool in struggle for Bundesliga expertise

That comes as a Sky Sports activities journalist [Via Sport Witness] reviews that the Reds are keeping a close eye on Eintracht Frankfurt talent Hugo Larsson, who’s impressing in Germany.

Signed from Malmo in 2023, the Swedish worldwide midfielder has made a robust impression since arriving within the Bundesliga, with Fabrizio Romano dubbing him an “exciting” talent and Larsson grabbing three targets and an help up to now this season.

His performances haven’t gone unnoticed, with the midfielder being rewarded with a contemporary contract at Frankfurt, which is able to see him take house £30,000 per week until 2029 ought to he stay in Germany.

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Liverpool allowed the expertise to depart Anfield as a teenager.

As per Sky Sports activities’ Kerry Hau, although, golf equipment are starting to circle: “The 20-year-old Swede has already aroused the curiosity of a number of prime golf equipment. In accordance with our info, the Premier League is presently him.

“Some top-class groups, proper behind Liverpool FC, Arsenal FC and likewise Tottenham Hotspur, we hear, have Larsson of their sights, but in addition one or two Bundesliga rivals.

“However, the Frankfurt bosses round Markus Dröschel can sit again and loosen up, as a result of Larsson feels at house on the Essential and that’s the reason he just lately prolonged his contract early till 2029 and, very importantly, from Frankfurt’s perspective, with out an exit clause.”

Any deal to signal the younger expertise could be a pricey enterprise, however as Liverpool have already proved of their pursuit of Moises Caicedo, they’re prepared to spend large when the proper participant is on the market.