Liverpool’s biggest January transfer need laid bare by Joe Gomez injury

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With the January transfer window approaching, Liverpool’s clear priority in the mid-season market has been hammered home by another injury to versatile defender Joe Gomez. Liverpool’s centre-back options – and who Slot trusts Slot has, after all, already accepted that his only remaining centre-backs have played too much football for this stage in a season.

“So it’s good for them we go now to a run of games where there’s one week rest in between.” Virgil van Dijk has played every minute of every game so far in the Premier League and Champions League, with Ibrahima Konate clocking the third-highest total of minutes throughout the squad (1,942). 6 but he too has clocked 1,654 minutes so far – the fourth-most for Liverpool.

Liverpool have been credited with an interest in a number of others, including Sporting CP’s Ousmane Diomande and Zeno Debast, Club Brugge’s Joel Ordonez and Wolfsburg’s Konstantinos Koulierakis. With Konate yet to commit to an extension to a deal which expires on July 1 and Gomez joining Leoni and Endo on the injury list, a centre-back signing must be a priority for January.