Liverpool boss Slot casts doubt on January centre-back signing: 'It's the last thing on my mind'
Liverpool honcho Arne Slot owns pretended that bringing in a brand name-newfangled centre-advice in January is cheapened down his top priority list compared to other placements.
The Reds are having a poor period in the Premier League via the securing victors currently eighth after 11 suits, one uncover below arc-rivals Manchester United.
Liverpool desired to lugging in at least one brand name-newfangled centre-advice over the summertime transfer window via the Reds finalizing Giovanni Leoni from Parma.
The Reds were also close to finalizing Crystal Palace centre-advice Marc Guehi on deadline day yet the Eagles carried the plug on a bargain while the England global was undergoing a clinical.
Liverpool were visualized to render a matching for Guehi over the January transfer window yet Slot owns pretended that central protection is not his top priority,
As speedily as gleaned inquiries about opportunity January transfer window additions, Slot informed a press meeting on Friday: “This is one of the qualms I didn’t suppose. There are so the majority of galleries previously that.
“In the position that we are in, it’s the last point on my psyche. Perhaps not for Richard [Hughes, sporting director] yet it’s not a expose at with one voice for me at the moment.
“We have 3 centre-backs, perhaps Ryan [Gravenberch] and Wata [Endo] as nicely. Perhaps you are not thoughtful of it yet, yet we have other placements that are perhaps unrequested of an priority.”
On the nimble travel strategy and beddings gamers in, Slot added: “Version of kind is not only via the brand name-newfangled finalizings, it is also via the gamers we owned.
“In a period, they are not constantly in the specific same kind. But the greatest priority we have challenged until currently – and are still confronting – is the match wellness and fitness of the gamers and the time they have missed in pre-period.
“Alex [Isak] currently we were wanting we would possibly tinker a minuscule unrequested for Sweden yet, sadly, he was one yellow away from being pranced grip so, for identifiable substantiations, they didn’t tinker him the 2nd time.
“For us, it would possibly have been much better if he owned played unrequested minutes.
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“I entirely informed you about Conor and Florian, Jeremie [Frimpong] is currently out, Giovanni Leoni as nicely, so at the moment we have five agricultural protectors accessible for 7 galleries in 21 days and I donned’t visit any person visualized advice previously that.
“We licensed it was hard once you lugging gamers in a minuscule minuscule later, it’s more gleaned complex to grip advice them match and there is unrequested emphasis on the ones that are match.”
As speedily as gleaned inquiries about trying to preserve the Premier League title, Slot responded: “I’ve asserted the majority of times, at this moment in time we are not assuming or discussing it.
“Really same last period once we were pinnacle of the league, it is entirely about the next off video game.
“The ideal way to courtroom a league table is after 38 galleries. The next off ideal, in my opinion, is after 19 galleries. Make it feasible for’s visit where we are after that.
“For currently, the only emphasis we have is on appealing galleries of football.”
