Liverpool being \u2018desperate\u2019 to sign a player in the mould of Eduardo Camavinga, if not the Real Madrid man himself, whom Arne Slot has reportedly \u2018identified as a key target\u2019, may well have finally exposed a Reds star who\u2019s somehow avoided criticism as one of those players Jamie Carragher suggested was \u201ccarried\u201d through their title-winning campaign.<\/p>\n
According to CaughtOffside<\/a>, Liverpool are \u2018expected to table a \u20ac60m [\u00a353m] bid\u2019 for Camavinga, who\u2019s started just five games for Madrid this season as Xabi Alonso\u2019s desire for a player with his own more cultured set of midfield skills has been widely reported.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Premier League winners and losers: Foden, Frank, Sunderland, Paqueta, Arsenal and more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n The report claims Arne Slot has \u2018identified the 23-year-old as a key target\u2019 as he looks to revamp his midfield, which now looks as lethargic and disjointed as it did dynamic and solid as they trotted to the Premier League title last term.<\/p>\n Spanish outlet E-Noticies has also reported that the Premier League champions are exploring the market for new midfielders, as Liverpool are \u2018desperately\u2019 searching for a \u2018physical and dominant\u2019 figure like Camavinga to add some much-needed grit and energy in the middle of the park.<\/p>\n Alexis Mac Allister has been heavily criticised for his incredibly laboured performances after cruising through games last season. Dominik Szoboszlai has avoided criticism as arguably been Liverpool\u2019s best player who\u2019s frequently been used out of position.<\/p>\n But far more strangely, inexplicably even, Ryan Gravenberch has avoided criticism for what has been a stunning downturn in his displays, which goes a long way to explaining this sudden \u2018desperation\u2019 to source an alternative option in his position.<\/p>\n He was praised as much as any Liverpool player last season, with Slot similarly hailed for dropping him into a defensive midfield position he looked born to play. The half-turns, the sweeping up, the vision from deep, it was all great.<\/p>\n The debate at the start of this season wasn\u2019t Moises Caicedo vs Declan Rice<\/a>, but Caicedo vs Rice vs Gravenberch. There\u2019s not one single right-minded soul who would pick the Liverpool star over the alternatives now. Anyone even mentioning Gravenberch would be laughed out of the room.<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah have taken more than their fair share of the blame for Liverpool\u2019s slump as the players to have fallen from the greatest heights. After they were both notably terrible<\/a> in the 4-1 defeat to PSV Eindhoven, Carragher asked \u201cwhere are the others?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI look at some of the others\u2026step up\u2026can you only play well when they play well?\u201d Carragher said. \u201cTheir seasons last season were off the scale and everyone else enjoyed that, winning the league, they\u2019re all league champions, they\u2019ve got that on their CV, but when they\u2019re not there, where are they, where are the others?<\/p>\n \u201cI actually think and maybe I thought this a little bit last season \u2013 are some of them good enough if Liverpool want to win the biggest trophies? You saw against Newcastle in the Carabao Cup (final), you saw against PSG away from home last season, woeful performances, and they\u2019ve been carried by some of the greatest players the club have ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n Gravenberch, after one good season, a few good games at the start of this campaign and then some very limp, uninspired midfield displays since, is now \u2018carried\u2019 while counterparts Rice and Caicedo (red card misstep aside) continue to do the carrying, and apparently that\u2019s not gone unnoticed by Slot and whoever else at Liverpool is pushing for Camavinga as an upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool being \u2018desperate\u2019 to sign a player in the mould of Eduardo Camavinga, if not the Real Madrid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10287,914,61,60,1101,43,27005,112,9418],"class_list":{"0":"post-169972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-f365-says","9":"tag-front-page","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-ryan-gravenberch","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ud83d\udc49\u00a0Leboeuf slams \u2018appalling\u2019 Liverpool star vs West Ham with one player likely to be \u2018very upset\u2019<\/a>
\ud83d\udc49\u00a0Liverpool could fall into West Ham \u2018reality\u2019 trap \u2013 but forgotten man could definitely be part of the answer<\/a>
\ud83d\udc49\u00a0Liverpool shot themselves in the balls so Arne Slot must pay; it\u2019s how football works<\/a><\/p>\n