Liverpool are set for a surprise June arrival after news filtered through over the past few days.
We’ve been seeing plenty of Liverpool transfer news come through the wire but this is news of a done deal. But it might be one that causes some concern among the fanbase.
Not just because of who it is, but because it’ll throw up the question ‘what do we do with him?’ And that’s a valid point and it might come to be an issue moving forward.
Liverpool’s transfer dealings tend to be kept fairly quiet, fairly small. Not necessarily in the fees spent, but the amount of players brought in. Jurgen Klopp and Micheal Edwards don’t tend to go crazy and sign five, six, seven players in a window.
There’s a very calculated approach. Cold, even.
We’ve seen strategic bids places for Alisson, Virgil van Dijk and Fabinho. These transformed the spine of the side in six months, while additional reinforcements like Naby Keita added some extra quality to the squad.
We’ve seen Liverpool linked with exciting names and it looks as if Klopp and Edwards want an additional top player to supplement Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah up front and that makes sense.
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Could our surprise arrival do that, but in a different area of the field?
That depends on your opinion of Loris Karius, the man who has been cut lose from his time with Besiktas so the Turkish side doesn’t have to pay the mandatory £10 million fee. The Daily Mail has written that they’ll fork out £400,000 to send the German stopper back to Merseyside at the end of June.
Of all the problems the club could have bargained for, the return of Loris Karius probably wasn’t one of them. While he stint in the Super Lig hasn’t been perfect, the goalkeeper has played enough to assume that his loan side would want to turn it into a permanent move.
But now Liverpool need to find a willing buyer for the man who still appears to be suffering from the consequences of the Champions League final loss to Real Madrid.
Besiktas could have signed the player for £10 million, but if Edwards keeps the asking price that low he should be able to attract the attention of a mid-range Premier League side and bring this unhappy saga to a close.