Liverpool should shelve any existing plans to sign West Ham United and England ace Declan Rice in pursuit of Newcastle midfielder Joelinton, according to former midfielder Dietmar Hamann.
The 2005 Champions League winner believes his former club only have themselves to blame for their poor start to the Premier League season and reinforcements should have been added in the summer, after the club's pulsating quest for quadruple glory fell short by the finest of margins.
Midfield has been an area of Jurgen Klopp's squad that has been decimated by injuries throughout the current campaign with Thiago Alcantara, Jordan Henderson and Arthur Melo missing a number of matches. But aside from injuries, fellow midfield operator Fabinho has struggled for form and subsequently failed to provide Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez with adequate protection.
