£10m-per-year Liverpool target holds meeting with club as decision made
Liverpool's transfer rumour mill has been going into overdrive over the last couple of weeks. There are so many players within the Reds' first-team squad that need to be replaced before it's too late....
£10m-per-year Liverpool target holds meeting with club as decision made Liverpool's transfer rumour mill has been going into overdrive over the last couple of weeks. There are so many players within the Reds' first-team squad that need to be replaced before it's too late. Midfielders such as Alexis Mac Allister and attackers such as Cody Gakpo have been a shadow of their former selves and, now that Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson are both leaving, there's going to be some major voids for Liverpool to fill before the start of next season.
Most fans also expected the club to be looking for a new manager but, with the way that things seem to be headed, Arne Slot is likely to stay at the helm. So, with all these changes needing to occur in such little time, it's hardly surprising to see new players linked with and Anfield switch almost every day and now, one of the Reds' reported targets has held a meeting to decide what his future holds. Konrad Laimer is willing to drop his contract demands to stay at Bayern Munich Konrad Laimer is far from Bayern Munich's flashiest player but, whenever he's called upon, he gets the job done.
The Austrian is a natural defensive midfielder but, with Joshua Kimmich getting on a bit and Josip Stanisic being a much better centre-back than a right-back, Laimer has been shoehorned into that position by Vincent Kompany. On the ball, he's a master of the trade and, since he's already a defensive-minded player, the defensive aspects of being a right-back have hardly phased him. In fact, the 28-year-old has even been used at left-back this term due to the sheer number of injuries that Alphonso Davies has suffered.
All of these aspects made him a perfect target for Liverpool and, since Bayern and the Austrian couldn't agree on the terms for a new contract, an Anfield switch was almost on the cards. But now, an update from German journalist Christian Falk about one of their potential transfer targets . "There was a lot of silence last month!