If there’s one area of the pitch Liverpool do need to bolster in the near future, it’s their midfield, and Jürgen Klopp knows this.
Whether this is addressed in January remains to be seen, but their attempts to remedy the problem in the summer, by signing Arthur Melo on loan from Juventus, haven’t worked out.
The Brazilian has spent more time off the pitch than on it due to injuries, and it really wouldn’t come as a shock if that move was somehow cancelled in the next transfer window.
Even if it isn’t, it’s only a tiny plaster over a gaping wound, meaning more work has to be done, which is where someone like Adrien Rabiot could come in.
We say this because Gazzetta dello Sport believe that Liverpool, alongside Chelsea, are interested in the Frenchman, who is now expected to be a starter at the World Cup for France.
They explain there is a ‘high risk’ that Rabiot runs down his contract at Juventus, and the player is ‘intrigued’ by the Premier League, where he had a chance of moving to when Manchester United came knocking in the summer.
That move never materialised, but there is ‘no shortage of rich suitors’ for him there, with ‘Chelsea and Liverpool above all’.
For now, though, Juventus want him to continue his great run of form, and whether Liverpool come knocking or not is a future problem for them, all depending on whether they can convince their midfielder to renew.
