Liverpool have determined priority transfers after the target of three strikers was revealed

Gilabola.com – Summer Liverpool are increasingly crowded with transfer activities, but the focus of coach Arne Slot does not seem to be fully fixed on the attack line.

Although speculation emerged about big names such as Victor Osimhen and Alexander Sisel, the latest report said that the slot actually prioritizes the back line strengthening, with Marc Guehi from Crystal Palace to be the main target.

Guehi’s contract situation also supports this step. The British national team central defender will enter the last 12 months of his contract at Selhurst Park. If not released immediately, Palace is at risk of losing Guehi for free next year.

This makes the 2025 summer transfer window the most realistic time for Palace to get significant income from the transfer of its flagship defender.

Report from Echo Liverpool Mention that the Merseyside club is willing to wait for the negotiation process, considering that Palace itself is reportedly getting closer to the recruitment of Ousmane Diomande from Sporting CP as a substitute for Guehi’s potential.

A sign of priority scale change

The decision to make Guehi a ‘top priority’ come in the midst of the certainty of the departure of Jarell Quansah to Bayer Leverkusen in a transfer agreement worth Rp 670 billion.

Quuansah has undergone a medical test and is certain to join the Bundesliga club, just a few days after performing brilliantly with the England U-21 team at the European Championship.

Not only losing Quuansah, Liverpool also faced uncertainty over the future of Ibrahima Konate, who is now the target of Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid.

With this situation, Liverpool left three senior central defenders: Konate, Virgil van Dijk, and Joe Gomez. Slots certainly realize that fragile defenses can have a worse impact than the blunt front line in a long competition.

Even so, that does not mean Liverpool forgot the attacker’s option at all. Florian Plettenberg from Sky Sports Germany Reporting that the club has a list of three attacker candidates namely Osimhen, Isak, and Hugo Ekitice. But he stressed that the central defender remained at the top in the transfer plan.

So far, Liverpool have been actively moving in the player exchanges by recruiting Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong, and Milos Kerkez, all of which spent a budget of approximately Rp 4.4 trillion.

Meanwhile, Darwin Nunez is still in the spotlight because of the inconsistent appearance, Napoli’s interest and the al-Nassr approach which was rejected opening the possibility of movement on the front lines.

But if you have to choose, the slot is reported to prefer to strengthen the defense first. For the Dutch coach, stability in the back line is the main foundation in a modern soccer game, especially when ambitions to defend the title so big in the midst of increasingly fierce premier league competition.