Transfer expert Fabrizio Romano has revealed that Liverpool are looking to sign Sunderland defender\u00a0Lutsharel Geertruida before the deadline.<\/p>\n
The Reds have been having a poor season in the Premier League but a 4-1 win over Newcastle United on Saturday boosted their chances of Champions League qualification.<\/p>\n
Liverpool<\/a> moved up into fifth place<\/a> above arch-rivals Manchester United, who could go back above the Reds if they beat Fulham on Sunday.<\/p>\n The Reds are struggling for numbers in defence with Ryan Gravenberch having to cover at centre-back in their midweek Champions League clash against Qarabag.<\/p>\n Ibrahima Konate returned to the staring XI alongside Virgil van Dijk against Newcastle but midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai had to fill in at right-back.<\/p>\n Conor Bradley is likely to be out for the season after picking up a serious injury earlier this month, while Jeremie Frimpong is likely to be out for a few weeks.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Liverpool fans should \u2018be careful\u2019 as Arne Slot actually better than Xabi Alonso for two reasons<\/a><\/p>\n That led to expectations that Liverpool would enter the transfer market before the deadline with Slot hinting at potential moves before the Newcastle win.<\/p>\n Slot told reporters: \u201cI think we are trying to strengthen the squad and not trying to weaken it.<\/p>\n \u201cBut yeah, 48 hours to go. Let\u2019s see where the window ends up.\u201d<\/p>\n And now Romano has revealed that Liverpool are now \u2018in talks\u2019 to sign Netherlands international\u00a0Geertruida from Sunderland before the window shuts on Monday.<\/p>\n Romano wrote on X<\/a>:\u00a0\u2018EXCLUSIVE: Liverpool, in talks to sign Lutsharel Geertruida as new defender. Initial contacts took place with Sunderland as Arne Slot knows him well since Feyenoord times. #LFC in club to club negotiations.\u2019<\/p>\n Geertruida, who can play anywhere across the backline and in defensive midfield, has made 17 Premier League appearances this season for the Black Cats and has 19 caps for the Netherlands to his name.<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 After scoring ten goals in two matches against Qarabag and Newcastle, Slot is hoping they can look forward now after a poor season to date.<\/p>\n When asked if two wins in a row is the perfect base the build from, Slot replied: \u201cYeah, of course. We are in an industry where it\u2019s all about results and I\u2019ve asked after the Bournemouth game \u2013 asked to the players but told you as well \u2013 that we have to improve in both boxes because in between we do so many things at such a high level.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the last two games, scoring 10 and only conceding one, I think I can safely say that that has been a big improvement. So yeah, pleased and happy that we have these two results. But because of the many points we\u2019ve dropped, we are also aware that this is certainly not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transfer expert Fabrizio Romano has revealed that Liverpool are looking to sign Sunderland defender\u00a0Lutsharel Geertruida before the deadline.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[107,59,348,708,50,221,101,2873,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-402144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-fabrizio-romano","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-home-page","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-premier-league","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sunderland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402144","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=402144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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