Ask any Liverpool fan who our most hated golf equipment are and 99.9% of individuals would say Manchester United or Everton, which makes this newest hearsay very fascinating.
As reported by Give Me Sport: ‘Whereas United have been monitoring Branthwaite for a protracted time frame, they’ll face competitors for his signature ought to he be out there in the summertime.
‘GMS sources have indicated that Liverpool may very well be within the combine for the 22-year-old.’
It’s not the primary time we’ve been linked to Jarrad Branthwaite and it could be a outstanding deal if we accomplished it, for a lot of differing causes.
First, it could be the most recent in a protracted line of gamers who’ve represented each golf equipment on both facet of Stanley Park – following within the footsteps of the likes of Conor Coady, Abel Xavier and Nick Barmby.
Subsequent, it could imply pipping these from Outdated Trafford to a signing they’ve additionally been touted to make for a very long time and there aren’t many issues sweeter than upsetting these from down the M62.
Jarrad Branthwaite arriving at Anfield could be a serious shock
Lastly, it presents Arne Slot with fairly the choice headache on the coronary heart of our defence because of the variety of choices we now have at our disposal already.
In Virgil van Dijk, Ibou Konate, Joe Gomez and Jarell Quansah, it’s secure to say we now have a superb quartet of central defenders who’re already wrestling for recreation time.
If we add on one other within the type of the England worldwide, then it could solely trigger extra issues by way of who will get to play and when.
Due to this fact, it appears unlikely we might do that except considered one of them was to depart this January or the summer season.
Our principal ambition in all of this is able to be to safe the way forward for our captain and given his current feedback, this is probably not too far off.
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