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Liverpool’s summer used to look like a tightrope walk.

Trent Alexander-Arnold’s decision to end his 20-year Anfield stay left the right flank shorn of its creative heartbeat, while Andy Robertson’s most underwhelming campaign in red since 2017 exposed the left side all too often during 2024/25.

Supporters feared that both full-back spots – so central to Liverpool’s identity – might suddenly become pressure points just as Arne Slot seeks to defend the title.

That anxiety vanished once the recruitment team clicked into gear.

Jeremie Frimpong, fresh from a 30-goal-involvement spell with Bayer Leverkusen, arrived for £29.5 million to inject searing pace and end product down the right.

A week later Milos Kerkez, a £40 million bundle of energy who started every Premier League game for Bournemouth last term, signed up to challenge—and likely succeed—Robertson on the left.

Two dynamic, attacking full-backs later, worry has been replaced by genuine excitement about the back-line’s next evolution.

But one prior Liverpool target in Wesley França has now completed his move to AS Roma, although Reds fans will not be losing any sleep over it.

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Reports earlier this summer from Brazil asserted that Liverpool had even spoken to the agents of the now former Flamengo right-back, but it seems Frimpong was the preffered option.

But it is Roma, now under Gian Piero Gasperini, moved decisively to secure França on a five-year contract until 2030.

The defender will wear the number 43 shirt – the same number he wore at Flamengo and even has tattooed on his body.

The Seria A side will pay €25 million plus €5 million in add-ons for the 21-year-old.

França’s journey to European football reads like a modern fairy tale.

Just five years ago, he was working as a parking attendant and helping his mother in a restaurant during the COVID-19 pandemic.

After deciding to give football another chance in 2020, he joined Flamengo’s youth setup and rapidly progressed to become a first-team regular, making over 100 appearances and earning two senior caps for Brazil.

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