Maybe a parallel can be drawn between his and Saliba’s progress. Both acquired by big clubs at a young age, both sent out on loan to gain progress - it’s just that Arsenal knew what they were doing with Saliba, whereas Barcelona ran into financial issues, so they had to sell quite a few players, including him.
I think I remember Saliba facing a lot of criticism a few years ago - look at him now. Maybe Todibo can follow a similar path. That said, he’s playing for Nice, Man United are already said to be tracking him, so I’d wager a guess that he’ll end up there. If he does’, I hope he pulls a Maguire. If he ends up at Liverpool, I hope he’s the next Van Dijk.
Robbo needs to be tried in the LCB role as well. I do think that will be the future career move for him as he gets older. I do think he’s defensively sound enough to make the transition too
Also as a potential left footed CB (as a stop gap)
Would leave us free to sign another LB as understudy if not a starter.
I think Arsenal’s success with Saliba was more luck than judgement. Remember his first season there he was sent on loan only in Jan after Arteta failed to find a way to register him in their PL side rather than because of a coherent plan to let him develop somewhere else.
We’ve definitely been linked to Guehi before, but who knows how legit the links were of whether they were just chancers throwing out semi reasonable names for clicks
Was looking at CB’s on transfermarkt (first with contracts until 2024 and 2025) and Lacroix (he’s until 2025) was one of the names I thought we might get linked with.
Was the same with Cheick Doucoure last summer, so this one probably won’t happen.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has played down suggestions that the club will look to replace injured defender Joel Matip in the January transfer window. (Mirror)
Of course, he wouldn’t do the opposite but with only four CBs available going into the business end of the season, one of whom has a tendency to pick up injuries and another is very inexperienced, I think we should be looking for someone.
I’ve gotta assume this post was before his very serious injury. It’s reported to be an ACL so Matip is likely to miss the rest of the season.
We need a CB but who knows if we’ll get one. We were already short 1 CB in the summer and now we’re down another one. Can we say “Injury crisis”?
I find it funny how Klopp says we need to look for a defender “gift wrapped” under the Christmas tree.
This is the same Liverpool team that bought Van Dijk in January. Also we have a record of doing pretty good business in January. Surely there are a number of CB prospects on our wish list whom our scouts have been tracking that we can talk to other teams about.
If so, what do we look for? 0 in 11? or 11 in 11?