Richard Hughes has made an all-time Liverpool transfer fumble with midfielder deal

Richard Hughes has made an all-time Liverpool transfer fumble with midfielder deal This season Arne Slot has been struggling for midfield options. The likes of Ryan Gravenberch and Alexis Mac Allister have been short of their 2024/25 Premier League title-winning form. There have been occasional injury issues for the Reds’ first-choice quartet while backup option Wataru Endo is a long-term casualty.

Additionally the likes of Endo, Curtis Jones and Dominik Szoboszlai have been pressed into action at right back. It all adds up to the sense that Arne Slot could have done with at least one more high-performing midfielder this term. they may have let the perfect candidate walk out the door for a bargain fee last summer .

Liverpool will regret Morton deal Tyler Morton , 23, is a homegrown Liverpool No6 - who impressed across a couple of Championship loan spells at Blackburn and Hull. When he returned to work under Slot in the summer of 2024 it was expected he would take on more first-team duties. But the England under-21 European Championship winner was frozen out by the Dutchman.

And - last summer - the decision was taken to sell him to Lyon for only £9m give or take. Since then the Wallasey-born midfielder has developed into one of Ligue 1’s top performers - leading to links with clubs like Chelsea and Juventus. Any potential transfer regret that the decision-makers at Anfield might have been feeling has now been rammed home.