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Liverpool has reportedly made Crystal Palace's Marc Guehi its apical summertime people — contempt besides being successful the marketplace for a caller striker. Jarell Quansah is close to finalising his transportation to Bayer Leverkusen, which volition effect successful Arne Slot losing a defender up of adjacent season's rubric defense.
England planetary Guehi is approaching the last 12 months of his declaration astatine Selhurst Park, and this summertime presents the past accidental for Palace to unafraid a important interest oregon hazard losing him for a reduced terms successful January oregon for thing erstwhile his declaration expires adjacent summer.
The Liverpool Echo reported this week that with Palace nearing a woody for Ousmane Diomande from Sporting CP, Liverpool is blessed to bide its clip for Guehi.
Quansah completed his aesculapian for a determination to the Bundesliga connected Monday, conscionable days aft helium played a cardinal relation successful Lee Carsley's England Under-21s' European Championship triumph successful Slovakia.
Ibrahima Konate is reportedly drafting attraction from European champion Paris Saint-Germain and La Liga heavyweight Real Madrid arsenic helium besides enters the last 12 months of his contract.
It's already been a bustling summertime for the Premier League champions, with Trent Alexander-Arnold's hotly contested departure, arsenic good arsenic a spending spree that saw the Reds unafraid Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez.
Amidst speculation surrounding Darwin Nunez's stint astatine Anfield pursuing underwhelming performances, Napoli has shown involvement successful aft Al-Nassr had its overtures rebuffed backmost successful January.
If Nunez does extremity up departing, it mightiness look logical for Liverpool to hunt for a caller striker, but Sky Sports Germany's analogous Florian Plettenberg suggests the Reds person much pressing plans successful the transportation market.
"Understand Marc Guehi is present astatine the apical of the database for Liverpool," helium reported connected X. The writer reported that "Advanced talks are taking spot betwixt Liverpool and the 24 year-old center-back, with Liverpool trying to adjacent the deal." He added that the "England planetary remains nether declaration with Crystal Palace until 2027."
However, Plettenberg did besides study separately that Liverpool does person a three-man striker shortlist which includes Victor Osimhen, Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitke.
The proposition is, though, that if propulsion came to shove, Slot would prioritize a caller center-back implicit a caller striker, and that makes implicit consciousness considering Quansah's departure is acceptable to permission Liverpool with conscionable 3 elder cardinal defenders successful Konate, Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez.
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