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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Charlotte Coates

Michael Owen predicts Liverpool 'transfer target' will be the next 'big money buy'

When Liverpool were searching for a midfielder toward the end of transfer window, one of the names linked with Jurgen Klopp's side was Moises Caicedo.

Brighton, however, were under no pressure to sell Caicedo, having received more than £100m in player sales, and Liverpool instead turned to Arthur Melo, the Brazilian international who arrived on a season-long loan from Juventus and who could make his debut in tonight's Champions League opener at Napoli.

But former Liverpool striker Michael Owen believes it won't be long before clubs of the stature of the Reds return for the 20-year-old Ecuador international, who is a key man in Graham Potter's talented team and is under contract on the south coast until 2025.

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