Liverpool are due to target a new centre-back during the upcoming transfer window. The Reds haven’t made a signing in the back line for three years, when they brought in Ibrahima Konate from RB Leipzig. Konate had been targeted by Jurgen Klopp as the perfect addition to fill the gap left by Dejan Lovren at the end of the title-winning 2019/20 season. However, the problem was that the Frenchman was not available until summer of 2021. Liverpool were going to have to make do for a full season with just three centre-backs. Inevitably, crisis ensued. By December, all three of Joel Matip, Virgil van…
