Liverpool are weighing up their switch choices in relation to RB Leipzig defender Mo Simakan, in line with reviews popping out of Germany – however there could be fairly some work for them to do to get a deal finished earlier than the switch deadline subsequent Friday.
Leipzig-based journalist Philipp Hinze writes that Simakan is ‘on Liverpool’s checklist’, with Juventus additionally keeping track of the defender’s state of affairs.
Able to enjoying it both right-back or centre-back, Simikan’s FBRef profile credit him with spectacular stats at each ends of the sector – though his twin function implies that evaluating him both with different centre-backs or different full-backs on statistics alone can create a deceptive impression.
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Simikan has been at RB Leipzig for the previous three years after making the transfer from Strasbourg as a 21-year-old, and has performed and more and more necessary function for the bold German membership.
Hinze provides that the previous French youth worldwide is not at all determined to depart Leipzig, however that he would hold an open thoughts about any potential strikes which may come his manner.
An enormous-name membership like Liverpool or Juventus would after all be enticing to most gamers in his state of affairs…although not all, because the Reds came upon with Martin Zubimendi earlier this summer time.
With no official method but made for Simakan’s providers, the suggestion is that the defender is only one identify on Liverpool’s longlist as they proceed to hunt for his or her first new arrival of the summer time.
New supervisor Arne Slot continues to be but to greet any new signings via the door at Kirkby, with the switch window set to shut at 11pm subsequent Friday, August 30.
Liverpool ran out two-goal winners away to newly-promoted Ipswich City of their Premier League opener final weekend and can host Brentford on Sunday afternoon.
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