The transfer window may be closed right now, but new reports this week suggest that Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is already compiling potential future targets.
According to TalkSport:
"Liverpool are interested in [signing] Torino star Andrea Belotti...during the January transfer window. [Both] clubs have been scouting Belotti in recent weeks...and have been impressed by his performances".
Some info about Belotti:
* 22-year old striker, who can also play as a winger, or a second striker. Cost Torino €7.5m.
* Palermo/Torino: 32 goals/16 assists (48) in 103 apps (One every 117 mins). One appearance for the Italy national team.
* Oct 2013: According to Emiliano Mondonico (Belotti's manager at Albinoleffe): "He [Belotti] is a top-class player; a muscly striker with an eye for goal. He reminds me of Gianluca Vialli"
* Jun 2014: Italy U20 coach Alberigo Evani raved: "There are few like him. He does double duty: he is the first defender for the team, and always makes an important contribution".
Do Liverpool need another striker? Absolutely. In my view, Ings and Origi are not the long-term solution, and if Sturridge gets injured again at some point this season, the Reds will be light up-front.
Belotti clearly matches the Klopp transfer template: cheap; relatively unknown; a hard worker who appears to prioritise defensive duty. Liverpool's poor history with Italian players aside, is Belotti worth a bid?
According to TalkSport:
"Liverpool are interested in [signing] Torino star Andrea Belotti...during the January transfer window. [Both] clubs have been scouting Belotti in recent weeks...and have been impressed by his performances".
Some info about Belotti:
* 22-year old striker, who can also play as a winger, or a second striker. Cost Torino €7.5m.
* Palermo/Torino: 32 goals/16 assists (48) in 103 apps (One every 117 mins). One appearance for the Italy national team.
* Oct 2013: According to Emiliano Mondonico (Belotti's manager at Albinoleffe): "He [Belotti] is a top-class player; a muscly striker with an eye for goal. He reminds me of Gianluca Vialli"
* Jun 2014: Italy U20 coach Alberigo Evani raved: "There are few like him. He does double duty: he is the first defender for the team, and always makes an important contribution".
Do Liverpool need another striker? Absolutely. In my view, Ings and Origi are not the long-term solution, and if Sturridge gets injured again at some point this season, the Reds will be light up-front.
Belotti clearly matches the Klopp transfer template: cheap; relatively unknown; a hard worker who appears to prioritise defensive duty. Liverpool's poor history with Italian players aside, is Belotti worth a bid?
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