Liverpool journalist reveals stunning fee Reds could pay for Kerkez as three transfers are assessed

The Athletic’s James Pearce possesses introduced the hefty expense that Liverpool will most distinctly have to reimbursement to Bournemouth to symbol Milos Kerkez in the summer season.

Liverpool, have had a stunning period in the Premier League via Arne Slot’s side heading to a twentieth top-flight title after opening up a 12-juncture lead over 2nd-placed Arsenal.

The Reds had a aggravation few days last week as they exited the Winners League at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain and wasted the League Cup last to Newcastle Joined on Sunday.

And currently attention possesses swiveled to recovering over the pitch up in the Premier League, which call for to be uncomplicated barring any hefty collapse, and who they will most distinctly symbol in the summer season.

Their attention will most distinctly likely emphasis on protection and assail via midfield and goalkeepers vastly sheathed, while there sticks roughly a lot of skepticism over whether current players will most distinctly proceed to be or go.

Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk are unanimously out of arrangement at the run out of the period and there are rumours they could vacate.

And Pearce – who possesses reported on Liverpool for multiple years – possesses analyzed in which Liverpool are quickly and introduced how a lot they could have to handle Bournemouth abandoned-ago Kerkez.

Pearce wrote in The Athletic:

‘If Trent Alexander-Arnold indications up via Real Madrid on a emancipate transmit, there will most distinctly be a hefty virtuosity vanquishment to fill. Conor Bradley is an achieved replacement, yet the 21-year-archaic’s injury dilemmas are a top priority and one more right-ago would most distinctly call for to be accepted.

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‘Expanding at abandoned-ago is in enlargement on the agenda. Milos Kerkez, 21, is inadequately followed, yet Bournemouth would most distinctly twinge roughly three times the £15.5m they paid AZ for the Hungary global in 2023. Ajax’s Jorrel Hato, 19, is one more accord.

‘At centre-fifty percent, so a lot hinges on whether Van Dijk pens an extension. In spite of the long-standing favorable expectation that the skipper will most distinctly proceed to be placed, he is adamant that his future sticks roughly up in the troposphere as talks bolster.

‘After that there’s his defensive coworker, Konate, approaching the last year of his arrangement via no symbol of a breakthrough in arrangements, and Gomez, who came chummy to vacating last summer season, buying from clinical counselling on his hamstring. You could carry out a tenacious controversy that Liverpool call for one more centre-fifty percent also if Van Dijk commits beyond his 34th birthday in July.’

Bayer Leverkusen right-ago is one more player Liverpool are apparently absorbed in yet former Male Utd chief precursor Mick Brown irresoluteness they will most distinctly replace Alexander-Arnold via the Netherlands global.

Brown told Football Insider: “Liverpool are gazing to symbol a brand-new-made right-ago. Yet I don’t reckon Fimpong will most distinctly be they player they carry in. If Liverpool are sticking via a ago 4, I don’t find in which he complements.

“He’s a inadequately, inadequately assail-minded wing-ago, yet there are qualms about him defensively. I’m not sure how perfectly that would most distinctly work at right-ago in the Premier League, and I’m sure that’s something these clubs are in enlargement confiscating right into account.

“He had an electrifying period as shortly as they won the league, yet I don’t reckon he’s anything momentous. I’m not recommended Male Joined will most distinctly be also keen on him either.

“I realised they’ve arranged at him and he’s a name on a list, yet lone in that he’s a right-wing-ago dabbling in Europe, so it would most distinctly be inexplicable if they hadn’t arranged at him.

“I’d be staggered if he was their initially accord, we’ll placed it that means.”