Premier League rule means Liverpool can only make one more specific signing

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The Premier League allows a maximum of 17 senior non-homegrown players at a club.Squads are made up of 25 senior players, with Liverpool currently having enough senior players to fill up their entire squad currently. With nine homegrown and 16 non-homegrown players at the club, the Reds will have to pull off some careful manoeuvring in the window this summer.The nine homegrown players currently on the club's books are: Joe Gomez, Curtis Jones, Harvey Elliott, Conor Bradley, Stefan Bajcetic, James McConnell, Vitezslav Jaros, Jeremie Frimpong (who qualifies via his years spent at Manchester City's academy) and Freddie Woodman.FOLLOW OUR LIVERPOOL FC FACEBOOK PAGE!

Under-21 players do not need to be registered on the senior 25-man list and bypass the 17-player non-homegrown cap.For example, if Liverpool sign 19-year-old Yan Diomande from RB Leipzig, born in November 2006, it would have no impact on their remaining slots. Every time a player leaves, a brand new senior non-homegrown slot opens up.There is also often the misconception that a team must have eight homegrown players to fill the final slots in the squad.

This is not the case in the Premier League, but UEFA do require a set number of “locally trained players” in the group.However, with Elliott, McConnell, Ramsay, Jones and Bajcetic all facing uncertain futures at Anfield this summer, the Reds may also have to top up their homegrown quota.There is a solution, with 21 homegrown-eligible players on the club's books. However, not many of those, if any at all at this stage, are ready to make the jump to the first team.But the Premier League rules mean that, without making sales or excluding a player from their squad list, Liverpool can only make one more senior signing before they reach the maximum 17 non-homegrown players they would be allowed in their 25-man squad.