Liverpool leaving business til the summer after a quiet January window

A look at LFC’s January business, or lack of…

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00:00Liverpool is an amazing destination at the moment if you are a player looking for a top-level

00:22player especially with what Liverpool's season could turn into. Do you think they're giving

00:29themselves a bit of hard work to do in the summer, lining up for a big summer under Arnie

00:34Schlott because of this January window? What's your take? Can you see any business happening

00:39before the window closes?

00:40It's an interesting one because when Liverpool made moves in January in the past, bringing

00:46in Diaz and bringing in Cody Gakpo and obviously Virgil van Dijk before, that took a little

00:52bit of pressure off the summer then because the players are in and they're there for pre-season,

00:58you already know the squads and I think ahead of the summer, I'm not saying it's going to

01:05be a massive hole in the hole but even if Liverpool do go and win the title, they're

01:09still going to have to make changes to the squads. Left-back being warm, a lot of supporters

01:17want a left-back to come in now but Liverpool have got two options there and they're not

01:21going to probably get a third one. In the summer, they're going to have to go and get

01:26a new centre-forward because Darwin Nunes, the jury is still very much out with him after

01:32two and a half years at the club and Diogo de Otto has had his fitness problems again

01:36so that might be an area they have to address. Centre-back, depending on what might happen

01:42with say a Joe Gomez, if he says, right I need to go out and play football and Liverpool

01:49maybe they might want a left-footed centre-half anyway, so do they have to address that area

01:56in midfield as well? Do they want a back-up for a Ryan Gravenberch, does Wataru Endo say

02:03look I'm 31, 32 now, I want to go out and play football so potentially, and I'm not

02:10saying this will happen because it might not, but there might be four positions there that

02:15Liverpool need to go out and bolster and that's without maybe having to go and get a new right-back

02:20as well because we all know what happened with Trent Ellsworth because that happened

02:24to Arnold, right midfield, Mo Salah, what if Mo Salah leaves, what about if Virgil van

02:29Dijk leaves, so it could be a massive summer for Liverpool even if those three players

02:35stay, you'd still think that additions are going to be needed. The caveat to that is that the summer

02:41is easier in terms of getting targets in, there's more players available, less panic buyers, prices

02:50aren't as inflated, Liverpool often do the business in the summer like a lot of clubs

02:56are having January, but yeah if one did come in say in January it would take that little bit

03:02of pressure off but at the end of the day it's got to be the right player who's going to be

03:06able to make an impact really for Liverpool and there probably isn't that sort of player out there.