Liverpool have obviously described targets this summer for the midfield section with French duo Manu Kone and Khephren Thuram recognized to be favoured selections.
The previous, who currently plies his trade in the Bundesliga with Gladbach, is reported to be deemed a opportunity choice to Jude Bellingham.
Extra to the stage, it appears that the Reds’ curiosity is considerably concrete if the responses from the player’s entourage are just about anything to go by.
“Jürgen Klopp and Liverpool see Manu Koné as a alternative for Jude Bellingham, who is heading to Genuine Madrid rather of England,” Christian Falk solely disclosed in his newest Reality Documents for CaughtOffside.
“Liverpool have by now contacted Koné’s management and expressed curiosity. The intentions of the Reds are “real and huge,” so say the folks surrounding the Frenchman.
“A attainable price for the defensive midfielder must be involving €40-45m, that is what Gladbach hope. In advance of Liverpool were intrigued, €30m was nevertheless under discussion. Koné’s contract with Borussia operates until June thirty, 2025.”
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Liverpool have to have legs and physicality in the center of the park – Manu Kone presents them that
There is a issue that need to be requested of Liverpool’s modern attempts in the window to solve an ageing midfield.
Starting the Jurgen Klopp era with a excellent mix of technicality and bodily-dense attributes, the German’s midfield engine roared them on to a collection of silverware wins, not to point out innumerable other finals.
A gradual transition to elevated technicality, highlighted most not long ago by the purchase of the slight nowhere guy in Fabio Carvalho (and all the experiences of a prospective exit that followed of late) hardly compensated off for a aspect so clearly lacking in vitality and Pep Lijnders’ buzzword of ‘intensity’.
Nevertheless to some degree inconsistent, Manu Kone would be a step in the suitable way to restoring the Liverpool midfield to its prior, dominant stages.
