Liverpool are the subject of that familiar football mantra that you should buy from a position of strength, with the Premier League leaders being linked with a move for Teun Koopmeiners. The Dutch midfield man with a name that should please retro gamers has been racking up the points with Atalanta this season, his box-to-box bursts helping him contribute eight goals and four assists for the Serie A outfit. A fee of €45m has been mooted according to reports in Italy and, not surprisingly, others are keeping a beady eye on him too, especially teams in black and white stripes: Juventus and Newcastle.
It doesn’t stop there for the Reds with Jürgen Klopp keen to fill both his starting XI and bench full of attackers who can smash the ball into the back of the net. Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Hwang Hee-chan is one such player, the Korean currently joint-sixth in the Premier League scoring charts with 10 goals. Klopp has been a long-time admirer of the 27-year-old, who once put Virgil van Dijk on his backside before slotting home in Red Bull Salzburg’s 4-3 Champions League loss at Anfield in 2019. Hwang scored again at Anfield in an FA Cup tie last year and opened the scoring for Wolves in Liverpool’s 3-1 win at Molineux earlier in the current campaign. In short, Klopp has every reason to be a fan although a summer move could be more likely given that Hwang recently signed a new contract.
