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It could try to turn the tables and sign a star who is set to be out of contract, but Jose Mourinho is providing competition.

While pundits acting as though Liverpool should thank Alexander-Arnold for his service on bended knee have badly missed the point, it is also true that the club knows free transfers are part and parcel of the game.

Money is unlikely to be a major issue in this window, but free transfers can still be an astute way of leaving room for more business, and there are one or two intriguing names on the market.

One of those is Jonathan David.

He has notched 16 goals and five assists in Ligue 1 this season; he hit 19 and 24 in the two previous campaigns, but the division has shrunk from 20 to 18 teams, and there are also two games left of the current season for him to further improve his tally.

With such consistent output (and indeed availability) over a sustained period, the chance to sign David on a free transfer is bound to at least intrigue a number of top clubs.

Sure enough, Arsenal and Liverpool are both said to be monitoring the situation.

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Even with Liverpool and Arsenal both searching for strikers, he would struggle for game time guarantees at the sharp end of the Premier League.

For its part, Liverpool would raise eyebrows if it signed David for nothing and considered its attacking recruitment complete.

He would be taking over from a 39-year-old Edin Dzeko.

In the end, however, the most likely scenario may be that Liverpool, Arsenal and Mourinho are all thwarted
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