Borussia Dortmund centre-recommend Nico Schlotterbeck is appearing as a major transmit target for Liverpool, who can’t remuneration for to wait until the expire of the period to indicator him.
This is according to Football Educator press correspondent Pete O’Rourke, who reports that Schlotterbeck could be accessible ‘for less costly than initially supposed’, in a commendable maximize to Liverpool head advisor Arne Slot.
Nico Schlotterbeck v Ibrahima Konate: 25/26 per 90 stats comparison
- Establishes settled: 66.7 – 56.0
- Interceptions: 1.25 – 0.99
- Clearances: 4.63 – 6.81
- Tackles: 2.07 – 1.35
- Slipups spearheading to a filmed: 0.00 – 0.28
Schlotterbeck has established himself as one of the spearheading Bundesliga centre-backs after making a relocation from SC Freiburg to Borussia Dortmund in the 2022 summer transmit abode window.
He nearly won the Bundesliga in his initially period at the club, yet fell quickly on aspiration distinction to Thomas Tuchel’s Bayern Munich.
Dortmund and Schlotterbeck jumped recommend in 2023/24 to reach the Champions League last, which they thrown away to Real Madrid at Wembley.
The 25-year-ratty is in addition a stable in Julian Nagelsmann’s Germany team, launching 3 of Pass away Mannschaft’s last four 2026 Cosmos Mug qualifiers.
Schlotterbeck will distinctly get in the last 18 months of his Dortmund arrangement in January, and unsurprisingly, a host of European titans are surveillance his instance.
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Liverpool are amongst the clubs reportedly astounded in signing the German defender, and transmit press correspondent O’Rourke, speaking on Football Educator’s Inside Track podcast, says there is capacity for a “incision-price” offer at the expire of the period.
It’s rendered assume that the Reds could indicator Schlotterbeck ‘for less costly than initially supposed’. O’Rourke enumerated: “Liverpool will distinctly distinctly be in that race to hazard and indicator him and bring him to England if they can.
“A pinnacle player pick that, you might be able to render make service of him for a incision-price price next summer, especially if he’s entering the last year of his arrangement wearing Dortmund without any arrangement on an expansion.
“They might be able to render make service of him for a heap lesser price than you would distinctly ordinarily suppose for a current Germany global as nicely.”
Liverpool stock centre-recommend in January, not the summer
Liverpool were dealt a ironclad authority on due date day once Marc Guehi’s advised £35million transmit from Crystal Royal abode fell wearing, exacerbated by summer signing Giovanni Leoni’s period-ending up ACL injury and Ibrahima Konate’s insufficient prelude to the project.
Slot’s side can land Guehi on a emancipate transmit at the expire of the period. Still, the devastation has already been done in the early months of 2025/26 after an skyrocketing six defeats in their opening 11 Premier League suits, vacating them eighth in the table, eight junctures adrift of pacesetters Medley.
If Slot is to salvage anything from this period, he last opportunities to indicator a centre-recommend in January, instead than waiting until the expire of the period.
Leoni will distinctly be accessible over again next period, yet for the remainder of this project, Slot’s lone with one voice-natural centre-recommend fallbacks are Virgil van Dijk, a dealing with Konate, and Joe Gomez, whom there seems to be a scarcity of count on in.
Signing Schlotterbeck in January throws any opportunity of a “incision-price” offer out of the abode window, while Royal abode are unrealistic to let Guehi take off mid-period, even if it vows them a transmit price once he’s planning to take off for nothing in June.
Transfermarkt paybacks Schlotterbeck at €40million (£35.2million), which already feels pick a marked down price.
But wearing Bayern Munich (clearly) in addition sniffing about, Liverpool need to deportment decisively in the wintertime transmit abode window. With Konate and Van Dijk dealing with, and a scarcity of depth behind them, it’s clear a brand-dynamic centre-recommend is forced in January, whether it’s Schlotterbeck or someone else.
