Liverpool are considering a bid for Newcastle United defender Sven Botman when the transfer window reopens in the summer of 2026, according to a report, while sources have told TEAMtalk the Merseyside club\u2019s stance on bringing Trent Alexander-Arnold back from Real Madrid to Anfield.<\/p>\n
The defending Premier League champions completed the signing of Jeremy Jacquet in the winter transfer window. The 20-year-old French defender will move to Liverpool<\/a> from Rennes in the summer of 2026.<\/p>\n Liverpool will also have 19-year-old centre-back Giovanni Leoni to call upon next season when he has fully recovered from his anterior cruciate ligament injury.<\/p>\n However, with Ibrahima Konate yet to sign a new contract and Virgil van Dijk now 34, Liverpool are on the hunt for a senior and more experienced centre-back.<\/p>\n Liverpool target Newcastle United centre-back Sven Botman<\/p>\n According to Sports Boom<\/a>, Liverpool are keen on signing Sven Botman from Newcastle United in the summer of 2026.<\/p>\n The report has claimed that the Reds are \u2018considering making a bid\u2019 for the Netherlands international centre-back so that he can act \u2018as a mentor\u2019 for Jacquet.<\/p>\n Botman<\/a> has had injury problems during his time at Newcastle, so Liverpool will monitor the 26-year-old for the rest of the season before deciding whether they will make a formal proposal or not.<\/p>\n The report has noted that Botman signed a new contract with Newcastle only last month, but that will not stop Liverpool from making an offer.<\/p>\n Botman has been on the books of Newcastle since the summer of 2022 and is under contract at the Premier League club until the summer of 2030.<\/p>\n The Dutch centre-back has made 99 appearances for the Newcastle first team so far in his career, scoring two goals and providing four assists in the process.<\/p>\n Want more breaking transfer lines from original sources? Add TEAMtalk\u00a0as a preferred source on Google\u00a0<\/a>to your favourites list for news you can trust.<\/p>\n No return to Liverpool for Trent Alexander-Arnold<\/p>\n Our transfer insider, Grame Bailey, has reported that Liverpool have no plans whatsoever to bring back Trent Alexander-Arnold<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alexander-Arnold turned down multiple offers of a new contract at Liverpool to move to Real Madrid in the summer of 2025.<\/p>\n The 27-year-old\u2019s debut camp at Estadio Bernabeu has been affected by injuries, with the former Liverpool star able to make only 16 appearances in a Real Madrid shirt since his transfer.<\/p>\n We understand that Manchester City are keen on a 2026 summer deal for Alexander-Arnold, with the Premier League giants looking for a new right-back.<\/p>\n Sources have told us that Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group (FSG) have no plans to bring Alexander-Arnold back to Anfield.<\/p>\n Liverpool are fully committed to Conor Bradley\u00a0and Jeremie Frimpong, with no space in the squad for Alexander-Arnold.<\/p>\n A well\u2011placed Anfield insider exclusively told TEAMtalk:\u00a0\u201cTrent is not someone that is currently being talked about at the club.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd that isn\u2019t a huge dig at him, but in Conor and Jeremie, they have invested and are happy with those options.<\/p>\n \u201cCould that change if he was on the market and available? Never say never in football, but is very hard to imagine that.\u201d<\/p>\n Get the inside story first by joining our\u00a0TEAMtalk Facebook channel<\/a>\u00a0to receive the latest breaking and exclusive news straight into your Messenger inbox.<\/p>\n Harvey Elliott future<\/p>\n Harvey Elliott<\/a> plans to leave Aston Villa at the end of the season, according to Sports Boom<\/a>.<\/p>\n Elliott joined Villa on loan from Liverpool in the summer of 2025.<\/p>\n Villa having the obligation to make the winger\u2019s loan deal peranent for \u00a335million (\u20ac40.3m, $47.6m) if he makes 10 appearances.<\/p>\n So far, Elliott has played only seven times for Unai Emery\u2019s side.<\/p>\n According to Sports Boom, Elliott has told his agents to look for a move abroad at the end of the season so that he can get regular playing time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool are considering a bid for Newcastle United defender Sven Botman when the transfer window reopens in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[109016,64,63,596,585,42098,1613,1526,1614,85,152102,968,46593],"class_list":{"0":"post-463655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-all-the-news","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-front-page","13":"tag-harvey-elliott","14":"tag-liverpool","15":"tag-newcastle-united","16":"tag-premier-league","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sven-botman","19":"tag-transfer-news","20":"tag-trent-alexander-arnold"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}