{"id":333699,"date":"2025-12-24T18:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333699\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:29:10","slug":"arne-slot-must-move-for-january-target-hes-running-out-of-time-to-play-with-liverpool-star-he-thinks-is-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333699\/","title":{"rendered":"Arne Slot must move for January target, he’s running out of time to play with Liverpool star he thinks is ‘fantastic’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Arne<\/p>\n

Credit: Imago<\/p>\n

\"Harri <\/p>\n

Wed 24 December 2025 15:30, UK <\/p>\n

Arne Slot will be desperate to make additions to the Liverpool backline following a shaky few matches at Anfield.<\/p>\n

Virgil van Dijk is far from his best this season<\/a>, with his lack of leadership part of the reason that the Reds have fallen to fifth in the Premier League and also ninth in the Champions League.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Dutchman, Ibrahima Konate\u2019s future is uncertain at Liverpool<\/a>, but after his shocking performances across all competitions, some fans cannot wait to see the back of him.<\/p>\n

Giovanni Leoni<\/a>\u2018s arrival was greeted with a lot of excitement, but after sustaining a long-term injury on his first start, the Reds are back in the market for yet another experienced centre-back.<\/p>\n

Mick Brown has revealed to Football Insider that Liverpool are eyeing a big-money deal for Alessandro Bastoni<\/a>, who is currently one of the first names on Inter Milan<\/a>\u2018s teamsheet.<\/p>\n

\"LiverpoolCredit: ImagoAlessandro Bastoni has already spoken glowingly about Liverpool\u2019s stars<\/p>\n

Bastoni is no stranger to playing the Reds, with the two giants clashing only earlier this month in the Champions League, but he could now switch allegiances to Merseyside.<\/p>\n

Speaking back in 2022 [This is Anfield<\/a>], Bastoni said: \u201cI\u2019ve been against top players like Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a>, Karim Benzema<\/a> and Vinicius Junior<\/a>, who are all top European players as well.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSalah, [Sadio] Mane and [Diogo] Jota are all fantastic players, but we will need to play very well tomorrow and show our team spirit \u2013 that goes for me and all the other players.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sadly, he will be unable to play alongside either Mane or Jota, but there is still a chance to be Salah\u2019s teammate, despite all of the speculation around the legendary winger\u2019s future at Anfield.<\/p>\n

Mohamed Salah could be in his final season at Anfield<\/p>\n

The falling-out between Salah and Slot was quite the bombshell on Merseyside, but the pair appear to have fixed their relationship somewhat before the Egyptian jetted out to AFCON.<\/p>\n

Despite this, there remains huge speculation around the 33-year-old\u2019s next steps, with heavy links to the MLS and Saudi Arabia, and not much time left for the player to earn these massive wages.<\/p>\n

If Bastoni<\/a> has any dreams of playing alongside the Premier League great, he might have to force a move away from Inter next month, but that could come at quite the cost for the Reds.<\/p>\n

At just 26 years of age, the Italian international is already one of the most talented defenders in the world, and with Slot unable to find a fix for his defensive issues, this could be the only answer.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Imago Wed 24 December 2025 15:30, UK Arne Slot will be desperate to make additions to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[105380,218,708,2227,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-333699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-alessandro-bastoni","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-liverpool","11":"tag-mohamed-salah","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333699","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=333699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}