Arne Slot shares Liverpool January transfer update after Marc Guehi development
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Liverpool Echo IconSportFootballLiverpool FCLiverpool were close to signing Crystal Palace captain Marc Guehi in the summer and have since saw Giovanni Leoni suffer a season-ending injuryArne Slot has played down talk of Liverpool signing a centre-back in the January. The Premier League champions were set to sign Crystal Palace captain Marc Guehi on deadline day in the summer transfer window.However, Palace pulled the plug on the £35m deal at the 11th hour and this week their manager Oliver Glasner said he expects Guehi to now see out his contract at Selhurst Park.The Reds are one of several club looking to bring in the England international, whose current deal runs out at the end of June, as a free agent.READ MORE: Alexander Isak breaks silence on Liverpool form - 'I don't really have the answer'READ MORE: Arne Slot lays down gauntlet to two Liverpool players - 'It is the challenge now'Asked if a muscle injury to Joe Gomez alters the internal thinking around defensive plans for the winter window, Slot said he is relaxed about the options he has at his disposal presently as Ibrahima Konate gets set to partner Virgil van Dijk once more when the Reds travel to Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday."First of all for himself but the injury of Giovanni Leoni is, of course, it has quite a lot of impact," Slot said."If you have four centre backs for the season, two right and two left backs with Wata (Wataru Endo) and Ryan (Gravenberch) who can help you out, but then you have an ACL injury, that is not very helpful.
Some teams have so many (options) but most other teams do not."This is our way of working at Liverpool. You then have to accept that in certain games during a season you are short of a right full back."But we are still able to win.
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