Liverpool like, or have at numerous points appreciated, a few gamers at Bayer Leverkusen, according to Reds journalist and transfer information professional Neil Jones.
Talking exclusively to CaughtOffside for his newest column in the Every day Briefing, Jones stated that Liverpool are admirers of German midfield starlet Florian Wirtz, even though they’ve also enquired about Ecuadorian defender Piero Hincapie in the earlier.
Jones provides that Edmond Tapsoba is a different Leverkusen player that Liverpool have appeared at, and it will be intriguing to see what happens with some of these names amid discuss that Leverkusen manager Xabi Alonso could be the favourite to replace Jurgen Klopp when he leaves Anfield in the summer time.
“There will be a good deal of leading clubs searching at this Bayer Leverkusen squad and viewing alternatives to land gamers of significant potential in the summertime,” Jones reported.
“Liverpool are no different. They are acknowledged admirers of Piero Hincapie, and designed tentative enquiries about the Ecuadorian final summer time, and their scouts have, like just about each other club in Europe, been knowledgeable of Florian Wirtz for a variety of several years.
“Those two, in individual, are fascinating conditions, offered their age and the large ceilings they have. Hincapie would fit the monthly bill as a remaining-sided defender – an space Liverpool have been actively searching – whilst Wirtz’s flexibility and creativeness, as nicely as the actuality he does not flip 21 until finally May possibly, mark him out as a person of the greatest younger attackers in Europe.
“I consider possibly would improve Liverpool’s squad in the summer season, and I know that an additional Leverkusen player, Edmond Tapsoba, was preferred by the Reds in the previous. At 25, his very best decades are continue to incredibly a great deal in advance of him.”
Hincapie and Tapsoba are both equally sturdy defensive gamers who could be perfect to give LFC a extensive-term replacement for ageing stars like Virgil van Dijk and Joel Matip, although Wirtz appears like another person who would be a excellent suit for the way the team has played under Klopp, as nicely as certainly being a very good in good shape beneath Alonso’s tactical set up at the moment.
