The summer transfer window hasn’t officially opened yet, but Liverpool’s 2025 market is already proving more enticing than Arne Slot ’s first off-season at Anfield.

Compare that to last summer when, apart from the late moves for Giorgi Mamardashvili and Federico Chiesa, the only real transfer saga was that of Martin Zubimendi.



The Spanish midfielder ultimately opted to remain at Real Sociedad, much to the disappointment of Liverpool fans and Slot.

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In all three, Liverpool was bullied in midfield and was incapable of possession in key areas.

Whether Liverpool is wary of being burnt twice, thinks the position doesn’t need strengthening, or has identified a preference in that role is unclear, but for a second summer in a row, the midfielder won’t be the solution to one specific Liverpool issue.

But it does suggest that Slot feels the next stage of his midfield evolution will not involve a new fulcrum, but perhaps adding more energy and dynamism via Dominik Szoboszlai dropping into a deeper role, as was the case in the penultimate match of the season at Brighton & Hove Albion

Other names have been mentioned such as Angelo Stiller at Stuttgart, yet he lacks the status of the soon-to-be Arsenal man.

It means that in all the excitement over Liverpool’s early moves in the market, it may have missed out on one crucial summer signing.


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