Liverpool have reportedly recognized three gamers as their high switch targets for 2025 if among the Reds’ present stalwarts depart over the subsequent few months.
Contract affords have been made to Mo Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk as they close to the top of their present offers, and it’s been claimed that the latter could pen new phrases by the top of December, however Richard Hughes seemingly has replacements in thoughts if the opposite two had been to maneuver on.
Who’re the principle switch targets for Liverpool in 2025?
In line with Mark Brus for the Day by day Briefing on Tuesday morning, Jeremie Frimpong has been pinpointed as LFC’s ‘high goal’ at right-back if our present quantity 66 doesn’t agree a brand new contract on Merseyside, with the membership considered ‘more and more involved’ in regards to the 26-year-old’s future.
Arne Slot is believed to view the Bayer Leverkusen dynamo as an ‘excellent match’ for Liverpool’s type of play, and there’s a ‘rising feeling’ that the Bundesliga champions are ‘resigned to’ the Netherlands worldwide leaving in 2025.
Though the Reds are apparently extra assured of tying down Salah to a brand new deal, they’ve reportedly recognized two attainable replacements for the Egyptian in Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Leroy Sane.
Will Liverpool splash out for that trio in 2025?
From this report and an replace by Melissa Reddy on Sky Sports activities yesterday, it appears as if Trent is the least seemingly of the aforementioned Liverpool trio to agree a contract extension at Anfield.
That will see Frimpong prioritised as FSG’s chief switch mission over the subsequent few months, with the 23-year-old having reportedly been contacted by Slot over a attainable transfer to Merseyside throughout the summer time.
The Dutchman racked up an astonishing tally of 14 objectives and 12 assists from wing-back for Leverkusen final season, and though his return for the present marketing campaign is a little more sedate (two and 7 respectively), it’s evident that he nonetheless poses a real attacking risk from the flanks.
As for Salah’s future, each Liverpool fan might be praying that the extremely prolific Egyptian agrees to remain put for at the very least a pair extra years, nevertheless it’s no hurt to take a look at youthful alternate options who might exchange him additional down the road.
Sane has 90 objectives to his title throughout his spells with Bayern Munich and Manchester Metropolis, whereas Kvaratskhelia is on target for a 3rd successive season during which he hits double figures for Napoli in Serie A, having starred of their runaway title triumph in 2022/23.
If the Reds’ quantity 11 had been to depart in 2025, signing both of these would considerably soften the blow, though the hope is that they wouldn’t be wanted at Anfield fairly so quickly.
Hughes nonetheless has an enormous job on his fingers to tie down Van Dijk, Salah and Trent to new contracts, and the result of that three-pronged saga might closely dictate Liverpool’s switch exercise over the subsequent 12 months.
