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Liverpool have contacted the representatives of Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong over recent days as the summer transfer window is barely a fortnight away from opening.

Interest in both comes around a week after the Reds acknowledged that Trent Alexander-Arnold informed them of his intention to leave the club.

The Reds are ready to meet a release clause believed to be in the region of £30million.

Wirtz has also emerged as a target, with Liverpool ready to compete with Bayern Munich and Manchester City to sign the Bayer Leverkusen player.

The expectation, though, at this stage remains that the recently turned 22-year-old will stay in Germany.

However, if the Reds could raid Leverkusen for both Frimpong and Wirtz, that would go a long way to adequately replacing Alexander-Arnold next season.

But losing Alexander-Arnold leaves the Reds without their chief creator, passer and playmaker.

That is where Wirtz comes in.

Over the seven years since, with Klopp their manager for all but one of those, they have still yet to replace the Brazilian with a natural number 10.

It would likely cost a comparable transfer fee to what they received from the Catalan club, but Wirtz could be the one.

Alexander-Arnold ended up replacing Coutinho's creativity, and the Germany international now appears as well positioned as anyone to continue that succession.


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