Liverpool have reportedly identified three players as top transfer targets for 2025 should some of their current stalwarts leave in the coming months.
Mo Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk have made contract offers as their existing contracts near the end, with claims the latter could sign a new deal by the end of December. However, it appears that Richard Hughes has a replacement. Be mindful of whether the other two will move on.
Who are Liverpool’s main transfer targets in 2025?
According to Mark Brus Daily briefing On Tuesday morning, Jeremie Frimpong was identified as LFC’s right-back ‘top target’ if the current number 66 does not agree to a new contract on Merseyside. Old future.
Arne Slot sees the Bayer Leverkusen dynamo as ‘ideally suited’ to Liverpool’s style of play, with ‘sentiment growing’ that the Bundesliga champions are ‘resigned’ to leaving the Netherlands national team in 2025.
Although United appear to be more confident about tying Salah down to a new deal, reports suggest Kviza Kvaratskelia and Leroy Sane are two potential replacements for Salah.
Will Liverpool spring for this trio in 2025?
Of the aforementioned Liverpool trio, Trent appears to be the least likely to agree a contract extension at Anfield, according to this report and Melissa Leddy’s update on Sky Sports yesterday.
This could see Frimpong prioritized as a key transfer assignment for FSG in the coming months, with the 23-year-old reportedly being contacted by Slot about a possible move to Merseyside over the summer.
The Dutchman has set an incredible record. 14 goals, 12 assists He played as a wing-back for Leverkusen last season, and his return to the current season has been somewhat subdued (although2 and 7 respectively), it is clear that he still poses a real attacking threat on the wing.
Every Liverpool fan will be praying for Salah’s future. incredibly prolific The Egyptian agrees to stay on for at least a few more years, but it wouldn’t be a bad idea to look for a younger alternative to replace him in the future.
Sane is 90 goals While Bayern Munich and Manchester City took his name from him, Kvaratskelia On course He reached double figures for Napoli in Serie A in 2022/23, winning the title for the third successive season.
If the Reds’ number 11 leaves in 2025, signing one of them would soften the blow somewhat. But there is hope that he won’t be needed at Anfield so soon.
Hughes still has the mammoth task of tying down Van Dijk, Salah and Trent to new deals, and the outcome of that three-pronged saga could have a huge impact on Liverpool’s transfer activity over the next 12 months.
