It's the debate that has raged all summer at Liverpool, so Jurgen Klopp will already be anticipating external talk over his midfield growing louder as we edge towards the end of the transfer window.
Even when the Reds boss had a full complement of midfielders available to him he was fielding talk of furthering strengthening a nine-man department, speculation which the manager vehemently disagreed with in trademark style when speaking to a group of journalists at the AXA Training Centre last month.
"I don’t think something will happen in midfield, but you never know. If somebody comes to you and says ‘I want to go’," Klopp said on the eve of Liverpool's flight out to Thailand in mid-July. "Nobody came to me yet, but if that happens then we have to talk [again]. But if the situation stays like it is, then tell me why?
