Arne Slot on potential centre-back signing: ‘Liverpool do not have unlimited money’

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Arne Slot has refused to commit to saying Liverpool will sign a defender in January, but admitted that the current situation is “tough” and “not very helpful.” With Giovanni Leoni and Joe Gomez sidelined, the former until the end of the season, Liverpool have just two senior centre-halves available in Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate. Slot was asked if Gomez’s injury could impact Liverpool’s January transfer window plans.

“If you have four centre-backs for the season, two right and two left-backs with Wata (Endo) and Ryan (Gravenberch) who can help you out, but then you have an ACL injury, that is not very helpful. This is our way of working at Liverpool.” • READ: Marc Guehi is now ‘leading target’ for Man City in potential blow for Liverpool Marc Guehi has been the most heavily linked centre-back candidate, but having almost bought him in the summer, Liverpool could now be facing competition from the likes of Man City and Bayern Munich, with his contract expiring at the end of the season.

Despite the Reds having settled on the fee in August, Slot has now said: “The outside world wants to believe we have unlimited money but that is not true. You then have to accept that in certain games during a season you are short of a right full-back.