Dutch midfield pair on Liverpool radar as Arne Slot admiration revealed | OneFootball

Liverpool have yet to make a senior signing this transfer window under new sporting director Richard Hughes, FSG’s CEO of Football Michael Edwards and new head coach Arne Slot.

Despite many links to wingers and centre backs in the main, the Reds are still short on numbers compared to last season with Thiago Alcantara, Adrian San Miguel and Joel Matip the high-profile senior options who left at the end of their contracts.

While Vítězslav Jaroš, Sepp van den Berg and Stefan Bajcetic might well step up and bulk out the squad for Slot, it was expected that the Anfield club would have conducted some recruitment business by now.

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With Euro 2024 and the Copa America now done and dusted there may be a chance that deals are chased with Hughes having previously spoken about being ‘opportunistic’ in the window.

With Wataru Endo ending up as the sole No.6 option last season at times, there could well be space in the squad for new midfielders and two names have been mentioned again as potential arrivals.

According to CaughtOffside, the Reds remain in the hunt for Teun Koopmeiners of Atalanta, while Slot is described as an admirer of the Feyenoord star Quinten Timber.

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Koopmeiners missed the Euros due to injury and seemed at one stage destined for Juventus but the Old Lady are struggling to get that deal over the line due to Atalanta’s asking price.

Koopmeiners and Timber

Liverpool therefore are not yet out of the race for the Dutchman with the deal described as ‘one to watch’ in the report.

Timber, 23, meanwhile was a star for Slot under his Feyenoord regime after joining from Utrecht in 2022.

Deployed mostly in central midfield, Timber scored seven goals and provided nine assists across 31 Eredivisie games last season. He is under contract at De Kuip until 2026.

One more player mentioned as being on the Reds’ radar is Youssouf Fofana, the France international who is set to swap Monaco for AC Milan.

He is another player who had been looked at, according to the report, but one who ultimately ended up moving elsewhere.

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