Arne Slot has remained cautious in the center-back plans of Liverpool, because he offered an update about Joe Gomez’s injury status after he left the tour for the season early.
Liverpool was left with only one senior specialist at Centrum-Back in the double header against Athletic Club, after Virgil van Dijk missed due to illness and with Gomez still offside.
It left Wataru Endo, Andy Robertson and Trey Nyoni to take on the role, while Ryan Gravenberch was also drawn up during the trip to Asia, which saw calls for reinforcements grow.
With the new season only one week, Slot was asked in his press conference of the pre-community Shield if he thinks a new center-back should arrive.
He said: “What you just said, she (Endo, Robertson and Gravenberch) can certainly play there. And you forgot to mention Joe Gomez.
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“Unfortunately, he currently has a small injury, but he will return to the team very quickly.
“So we still have numerous options that can play there. But as always, what I always say, it is the same boring answer as with players we can bring in or not.
“I am really happy with the players we already have, and we have countless players who can play in that position.”
Liverpool certainly has alternative options that can play in the middle of the back, but for a team that wants to compete in all competitions, it is far from an ideal scenario.
Gomez is currently feeding an Achilles injury that he sustained during the time of the club in Hong Kong, the newest in a series of unfortunate fitness against the 28-year-old.
Although Slot says that the return of Gomez is imminent, it still leaves the club with three senior specialists in the position after Jarell Quansah was sold to Bayer Leverkusen.
Crystal Palace Captain Marc Guehi is a well -known target, and the Time‘Paul Joyce reports that they’ follow their interest, depending on the asking price ‘, which is currently around £ 50 million.
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