Act fast Richard Hughes! Liverpool have golden chance to sign £50m Van Dijk successor
Liverpool have begun the process of shaking up their centre-back selection. Last summer we saw Giovanni Leoni arrive on a £26m deal while Jarell Quansah was permitted to join Bayer Leverkusen.The res...
Act fast Richard Hughes! Liverpool have golden chance to sign £50m Van Dijk successor Liverpool have begun the process of shaking up their centre-back selection. Last summer we saw Giovanni Leoni arrive on a £26m deal while Jarell Quansah was permitted to join Bayer Leverkusen.
The restructuring continued in January through the arrival of Mor Talla Ndiaye for the under-21s and other deals were put in place for summer 2026. Ifeanyi Ndukwe comes on board from Austria Vienna and - biggest of all - Jeremy Jacquet will be at Anfield once his £62m deal from Rennes goes through. Liverpool will be left short of experience at centre-back But Liverpool still have some question marks over their current crop of senior defenders.
Ibrahima Konate STILL hasn’t signed a contract extension and remains on track to leave at the end of the season - and in summer 2027 both Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez will be wrapping up their Liverpool careers. That of course means a significant experience gap opening up at the back for Arne Slot’s side - that can probably only be addressed by a major signing in the transfer window. Nico Schlotterbeck is available The No1 candidate to arrive now appears to be Nico Schlotterbeck .
The Borussia Dortmund stopper recently extended his deal until 2031 - but it hasn’t stopped speculation from growing around the Germany international. Schlotterbeck’s new deal contains a clause - according to trusted transfer source Florian Plettenberg - which is available to a select number of clubs including Liverpool. “Now confirmed, as revealed yesterday on our show Transfer Update: Liverpool (alongside Real Madrid) are also one of the few clubs that can activate a release clause for Nico Schlotterbeck this summer,” he writes on X .