{"id":254841,"date":"2025-11-10T12:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254841\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:32:07","slug":"liverpool-chiefs-annoyed-at-transfer-as-fsg-plan-for-elite-january-signing-revealed-after-romano-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254841\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool chiefs &#8216;annoyed&#8217; at transfer as FSG plan for &#8216;elite&#8217; January signing revealed after Romano update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, Liverpool are planning to make an \u2018elite\u2019 signing in January, while club chiefs are \u2018annoyed\u2019 at one transfer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/liverpool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool\u00a0<\/a>has slumped into a crisis this season, as their performances have declined significantly since winning their 20th Premier League title last term.<\/p>\n<p>Club chiefs sanctioned a huge squad overhaul in the summer as head coach<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/arne-slot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Arne Slot <\/a>was given the funds to build his own team after getting the best out of Jurgen Klopp\u2019s group last season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/biggest-summer-spenders-2025-transfer-window-football\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Reds invested over \u00a3400m on several marquee signings <\/a>to fill the void left by Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez, Harvey Elliott and Jarell Quansah. They broke the British transfer record twice to sign Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak, while they also landed Hugo Ekitike, Jeremie Frimpong, Milos Kerkez and Giovanni Leoni.<\/p>\n<p>It was initially believed that this business would help to seal back-to-back Premier League titles, but Liverpool have been miles off the pace this season as they have severely lacked cohesion and intensity, while most of their top players have underperformed.<\/p>\n<p>READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-title-defence-over-manchester-city-arsenal-battle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a016 Conclusions from Man City 3-0 Liverpool: Champions slip to eighth and out of title race<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool built momentum by beating Aston Villa and Real Madrid in a matter of days, though they reverted to type on Sunday and were well-beaten by Man City at the Etihad.<\/p>\n<p>Slot\u2019s side produced a nothing performance as they were dominated by Man City, who won 3-0 thanks to goals from Erling Haaland, Nico Gonzalez and Jeremy Doku.<\/p>\n<p>This result leaves Liverpool eighth in the Premier League table and eight points adrift of table-toppers Arsenal, with it clear that more change is required in the upcoming transfer windows.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool are incredibly fragile in defence and they are surely ruing missing out on Marc Guehi, who had a transfer collapse on deadline day in the summer.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/indykaila\/status\/1987648945883853050\" target=\"_blank\">A report from an account on X with over 680k followers and a \u2018team of five elite reporters\u2019 claimed<\/a> on Sunday night that Liverpool chiefs are \u2018annoyed that Gu\u00e9hi didn\u2019t sign in the summer\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/arne-slot-out-of-depth-padding-pool-liverpool-mailbox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arne Slot \u2018out of his depth in a paddling pool\u2019 as Liverpool players \u2018lost faith\u2019<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/neville-badly-wrong-liverpool-second-little-boy-slot-side-named\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What Neville got \u2018badly wrong\u2019 about Liverpool as second \u2018little boy\u2019 in Slot\u2019s side named<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/rooney-hits-out-liverpool-star-not-helping-names-pl-title-favourites-arsenal-nervous\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Rooney hits out at Liverpool star for not \u2018helping\u2019 as he names PL title favourites with Arsenal \u2018nervous\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has also been noted that Liverpool\u2019s players \u2018feel the title race is not over\u2019, while Slot will \u2018test a new formation after the international break\u2019 with Isak and Ekitike up front.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding signings, Liverpool are likely to renew their interest in Guehi next year, while the same account claims that an \u2018elite winger is to be targeted in January\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>AFC Bournemouth\u2019s Antoine Semenyo has been mentioned as a target amid claims that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-romano-reveals-very-unlikely-verdict-semenyo-transfer-65m-offer-presented\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the Reds have submitted a \u00a365m offer, though Fabrizio Romano has insisted that a transfer is \u201cunlikely\u201d in January.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it is going to be a mid-season departure, I don\u2019t think it is going to be with Liverpool,\u201d Romano said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Liverpool is going to be very quiet in the January window. In the summer, it can be different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still want to respect Bournemouth, let them enjoy the player. It is still November and they are not planning for him to leave in January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot of interest in the player and there is a release clause, so it is a super interesting situation but I think it is for the summer window. For January, it is very unlikely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to reports, Liverpool are planning to make an \u2018elite\u2019 signing in January, while club chiefs are \u2018annoyed\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1953,1649,218,348,942,708,4556,50,221,101,56,1955,54,55],"class_list":["post-254841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-alexander-isak","tag-crystal-palace","tag-football","tag-home-page","tag-hugo-ekitike","tag-liverpool","tag-marc-guehi","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-uncategorized","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}