Liverpool may have to move fast if they wish to sign one reported target in Willian Pacho this summer.
That’s because PSG are now understood to be ‘exploring’ a deal to sign the Frankfurt defender this summer.
Florian Plettenberg reports on X (formerly Twitter) that the French outfit’s interest ‘is concrete’ with talks having already begun over a move.
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Miguel Delaney of The Independent had reported last week that the Reds’ interest in the Ecuadorian was long-standing.
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What exactly do Liverpool need at centre-back?
It’s perhaps rather instructive that we’ve seen Sepp van den Berg and Jarell Quansah repeatedly relied on in pre-season to start as the left and right-sided centre-backs respectively.
Admittedly, we’ve spent considerable portions of this period without the likes of Ibrahima Konate, Joe Gomez and Virgil van Dijk.
Nonetheless, might the right centre-back position be considered sufficiently bolstered between our No.78, our French international and the former Charlton Athletic prospect?
A difficult question to answer given we don’t yet know whether the latter will continue last season’s utility man trend or be considered an out-and-out centre-half. Likewise, there are question marks over Konate’s fitness.
That’s all without considering the stark lack of cover for Van Dijk on the left side.
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