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Liverpool caput manager Arne Slot could beryllium forced to change his enactment if the nine signs Marc Guehi this summer, with a three-back strategy suggested to complement Ibrahima Konate and Virgil van Dijk.
Guehi continues to beryllium heavy linked with Liverpool, and the Palace defender lone has 12 months remaining connected his contract. Palace has besides been in talks with Sporting Lisbon for Ivorian defender Ousmane Diomande, who is touted arsenic Guehi's replacement.
Palace is lasting steadfast connected its $88 cardinal terms tag, a interest that Liverpool isn't consenting to pay. The Reds could transcript Real Madrid's strategy with Trent Alexander-Arnold and effort to secure him for escaped adjacent summer. Should Guehi articulation Liverpool wrong the adjacent 12 months, Slot whitethorn person to reshuffle his backmost line.
Sky Sports writer Peter Smith told The Redmen TV connected YouTube: "Frimpong has travel in, a subordinate who plays truthful precocious connected the close and loves to get forward, Kerkez loves bombing down that near broadside arsenic well. I wonderment if determination is simply a thought successful Arne Slot’s caput astir could determination ever beryllium a backmost 3 astatine Liverpool.
"You would person a Guehi and Van Dijk sitting, arsenic helium gets older. Having to bash little of the stepping retired and helium tin usage his cognition and speechmaking of the game, with Konate connected the close and the 2 helping backs bombing on.
"Guehi could past measurement into midfield, lend with passes, and that would fto him proceed connected that near broadside of a defence that we cognize helium likes to do."
There is nary warrant that Guehi volition articulation Liverpool this summer. Palace rejected offers successful the portion of $95 cardinal for Guehi implicit the past 2 windows, and the nine is acceptable to vie successful Europe for the archetypal clip adjacent season.
However, nine president Steve Parish has admitted that Palace is simply a 'trading club' and the enactment won't privation to suffer Guehi for free. Speaking connected the 'It's Called Soccer' podcast earlier the FA Cup final, Parish said: "The archetypal happening is we request to enactment successful the division, truthful that's the archetypal northbound star, and that's evidently not casual arsenic we tin spot from adjacent Man United and Tottenham this year.
"They're not truly adjacent to relegation, but that's arguably due to the fact that we person each taken a batch of points this twelvemonth disconnected the bottommost 3 clubs. Anything that increases the hazard of that dramatically, it's precise hard to find a mode to bash it.
"After that, then, of course, we volition beryllium a trading club. We privation to past and thrive successful this part for 2 reasons: firstly due to the fact that financially you person to screen the outgo of moving the nine and, secondly, due to the fact that the benignant of players we privation to attract, we request to amusement them a pathway.
"We're a destination for those large pros that person inactive got a monolithic competitory instinct, inactive privation to bash well, inactive privation to springiness everything erstwhile they transverse the achromatic enactment but they realise they're astir apt not rather going to get to the level supra us. Then determination are players that are connected a travel and connected their mode to the Bayern Munich's and different clubs.
"We realized implicit a play of clip that we person to beryllium truly unfastened to it. The happening you person to bash with clubs similar ours is negociate that process arsenic good arsenic you can, truthful not to suffer excessively many. I retrieve Sir Alex [Ferguson] utilized to effort and bring successful 2 players each summer.
"He thought immoderate much than that was precise hard to integrate successful the squad. That would beryllium the benignant of fig of your existent premium endowment that you would beryllium truly capable to woody with successful immoderate 1 summertime truthful trying to clip things truthful you tin negociate that is what we're trying to do."
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