Three reasons why Dejan Lovren still has an Anfield future

His value is reducing every month

We’re all proud to have Michael Edwards in the position he is in. Edwards has worked tremendously hard to make Liverpool a better run club transfer wise, and his hard work is paying off.

However, even the Guru would struggle to extract a big sum for Lovren – a player on the wrong side of 30 with a contract that’s ticking down to zero with every month that passes.

In a purely commercial sense, it’ll make more sense to keep the Croatian international at the club for the next couple of years while Hoever and van den Berg continue to develop. Ultimately Liverpool will have to take a hit on Lovren when he decides to leave for nothing at the end of his deal, or on the cheap as it runs down, but it’ll be worth it.

It’ll be worth it because the Reds would have secured a succession plan for the first team with such minimal cost. Hoever and van den Berg were brought to Merseyside for a combined £1.4 million, and even when you think about the £20 million Liverpool would lose by not selling Lovren now it’s still worth it.

Players aren’t cheap anymore and it’s far better for the team to develop from within without the seismic pressure that comes with being thrown into the deep end because of a first team injury crisis.