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To celebrate the start of the World Cup, Liverpool.com is going to highlight each Liverpool player who is competing at the tournament with a focus on any international teammates who could interest the Reds.
The competition is an opportunity to scout potential targets.
Overall, Klopp will surely hope to land his top target but if Real Madrid land Bellingham, perhaps the Reds could explore the prospect of a shock swoop for Valverde on the back of his drop down the pecking order.
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Upon inspection of the squad which includes ex-Reds Luis Suárez and Sebastián Coates, the dynamic appears different in comparison to England, Brazil and the Netherlands from earlier in the series.
Liverpool.com have identified just one name for Jürgen Klopp and Julian Ward to consider.
However, there is one name who totally fits the Klopp mould, albeit from an extremely difficult place to acquire him from in the Santiago Bernabeu.
If the Englishman was to join Real Madrid rather than Liverpool, that would leave the Spanish giants with Valverde, Bellingham, Aurélien Tchouaméni and Eduardo Camavinga in their midfield department, with doubts emerging regarding which player would assume a spot on the bench in most games.