Liverpool are planning to make quite a few daring strikes within the winter market in response to one report.
Football Insider now declare that the Merseysiders are prioritising the signing of a holding midfielder within the upcoming January switch window.
This follows the Reds’ failure to land Martin Zubimendi in the summertime – a decision the Spaniard is understood to not regret.
It stays to be seen whether or not Arne Slot’s outfit will look to return for the 25-year-old within the coming months.
Liverpool wish to signal Crystal Palace’s Eberechi Eze in January
If the aforementioned report from Pete O’Rourke is to be taken as gospel, Liverpool haven’t any intention of settling for only one midfield signing.
Soccer Insider add that Crystal Palace’s Eberechi Eze is attracting severe curiosity from the Premier League giants forward of January.
The ‘excellent footballer’ (within the words of chairman Steve Parish) gained’t come cheaply in fact. A suggestion between the £50-60m mark is taken into account doubtlessly appropriate to tempt the Eagles into parting methods with one other star expertise.
Eberechi Eze would compete with Dominik Szoboszlai
Amidst criticism of Dominik Szoboszlai’s output in the final third, we will perceive why a participant just like the Palace midfielder has been linked with a swap to Anfield.
The 26-year-old has already racked up three targets and an help (the identical variety of purpose contributions as our No.8 to be utterly truthful) in 2024/25.
By Eze’s requirements, nevertheless, that’s a little bit of a drop-off from the prior marketing campaign through which he amassed 11 targets and 4 assists in 27 Premier League appearances.
That’s greater than backed up statistically, with FBref placing the footballer within the ninetieth percentile for non-penalty xG (in comparison with Szoboszlai’s fiftieth percentile rating)
If Liverpool are in search of a dynamic attacking midfielder to maintain our Hungarian accountable – they might do a lot worse than the Englishman!
