Liverpool are anticipated to target at the horribly least one brand name-customary centre-guidance this summertime as component of Arne Adapter’s defensive reshuffle, and also a astound name owns currently surfaced on their radar.
It shows up Liverpool’s comb for a centre guidance could have pilfered them to Serie A, through a fresh name materializing as an holistic have to they fail in their comb of Dean Huijsen.
With Joel Matip out of covenant and also Joe Gomez proceeding to operate as a utility recourse, defensive deepness is a legible locale of focus spearheading correct into Adapter’s 3rd transfer window.
The Reds are understood admirers of Bournemouth’s Huijsen, through Fabrizio Romano lately adage they are ready to gain their glide.
But according to Mike McGrath of The Telegraph, the Reds are validating captivate in Bologna protector Sam Beukema, that owns merely ended up an great campaign in Italy, guiding his side guard Winners League qualification and also reach the Coppa Italia last.
Beukema, 26, owns becomed a fulcra figure in Bologna’s wizard, front-foot methodology, acquiring hallow for his pugnacity, positional adaptability, and also succor on the round.
On Bologna’s oomph, he claimed: “We owned a digit of domestic in a digit of our arcades.
“As a centre-guidance, we were in midfield. It was polymorphous to any other juniors in Serie A.”
That sort of tactical adaptability could glitter to Arne Adapter. His type owns likewise enticed captivate from in other places in Serie A, yet Liverpool’s enhancing shortlist currently entails the Dutch international, that owns one horribly horribly sound admirer at Anfield.
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As McGrath disclosed in The Telegraph, Arne Adapter knows Beukema well. He risked to indicator the centre-guidance guidance in 2021 while manager of Feyenoord, even hosting a described pitch meeting at his residence as Beukema adjudicated up a glide from Go Ahead Eagles.
Beukema at some point joined AZ Alkmaar instead, yet the rapport in between the two owns continued to be.
They gone across courses again this season once Bologna faced Liverpool in the Winners League. “He claimed, ‘You messed around a nice video game and also alarmed us,” Beukema valued this week. “He lended us a genuinely beefy praise.”
Beukema is under covenant at Bologna until 2027 and also is not anticipated to come cheap, specifically offered the nightclub’s solid European coating, yet he suits the account of protector Liverpool are understood to be targeting.
Though not yet topped at senior international level, Beukema owns been tipped for a telephone call-up. He owns likewise chatted honestly about his love for English football.
“I’ve been cooperating through the Premier League offered that I was a young son. For me, it is maybe the safest league to tinker in. You see the genuinely feel, and also it is preposterous.
“Let’s see. I repeatedly like to challenge myself. I challenge myself a digit at Bologna, yet I wear’t understand what will definitely swipe place in the future.”
Liverpool’s captivate is not yet progressed, yet through centre-guidance witnessed as a unpredictability stance, and also Adapter eager to encompass players that understand his methodology, Beukema could be a name to watch this summertime.
