Liverpool transfer news recap: contract WHIRLWIND, new Konate PARTNER, Trent SUCCESSOR
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Alex Caple
Alex Caple
Trent won't renew contract
In a new report from MARCA, Trent Alexander-Arnold is considered "one name [that] appears above all others", and Liverpool apparently "know that he [Trent] is not going to renew his contract", so there may be talks of a potential transfer in January.
This would enable Liverpool to receive a "significant amount of money" for the right-back, but it would leave the Reds with limited time to find a replacement if Conor Bradley was not favoured by Arne Slot for the role in the long term.
The club will be working hard behind the scenes to secure Trent's services beyond this season, but he can begin negotiations of his own with rival clubs from January 1st and the prospect of Liverpool receiving a fee for Trent may be enticing if negotiations collapse.
Trent will renew
Liverpool's contract talks with Trent Alexander-Arnold have taken another twist, per multiple reports. The Reds have a timeline set.
Both DaveOCKop and GiveMeSport claim that Trent Alexander-Arnold and Liverpool are confident of an agreement soon. The two parties are engaged in contract talks, with the Scouser's deal expiring in June.
t means Alexander-Arnold can agree a pre-contract with a non-English club from January 1st. Real Madrid are strongly linked with a move and a report from Marca this week suggested they were on the verge of doing just that.
In fact, that report went as far as claiming that Liverpool knew that Alexander-Arnold wouldn't sign a new deal. Their decision was supposedly just whether to hold onto him until the end of the campaign or sell in the winter.
But now these new claims suggest that's not true. Instead, both the Reds and their vice-captain are progressing well on a deal - and Liverpool even have a timeline in mind.
Konate's new partner?
One of the players Liverpool are reportedly interested in signing is Loic Bade. Now at first glance the Sevilla defender doesn't seem like an obvious replacement for Van Dijk.
Bade has played most of his career as a right-sided centre-back. He is right-footed and seems to be more comfortable in that position.
But he is also someone who is capable of playing on the left. During his last stint in Ligue 1 while playing for Rennes, Bade was often used in the left-sided centre-back role and he flourished catching the attention of Sevilla and earning a lucrative move.
And now he's become one of the best defenders in La Liga, winning 78.79 per cent of his defensive duels in the league according to Wyscout.
Liverpool's Trent successor
Given the uncertainty surrounding Trent's future, the club have begun looking at the different options they could turn to at right back.
According to his new report in the Independent, journalist Miguel Delaney believes Liverpool are assessing Chelsea right-back Josh Acheampong.
While Real Madrid are the team most interested in the 18-year-old, both Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur joined Liverpool scouts at England's U20 matches this week to look more closely at the young international.
Chelsea's Ngumoha revenge
The Athletic are reporting that Chelsea have apparently banned Liverpool’s scouts from watching their youth games.
The report states that accreditation requests for academy games at Chelsea’s Cobham training centre have been rejected in the past month, reportedly due to Liverpool’s signing of Ngumoha.
A Chelsea source is reported to have said they have had accreditation requests denied from Liverpool also, which was refuted by sources at Liverpool.
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