Bad News:As Liverpool Set to miss out on another player

Manchester City have reportedly agreed a deal to sell Aymeric Laporte to Al-Nassr as the Saudi Arabian revolution continues. Laporte, 29, is a hugely experienced member of Pep Guardiola’s squad having signed in 2018 and he went onto win five league titles as a key part of City’s defence.

Laporte did undergo knee surgery last summer which kept him out of the start of last season and the form of the likes of Rico Lewis, Nathan Ake and Manuel Akanji made them impossible to drop, leaving Laporte out in the cold. He did feature for 11 minutes at the end of the Community Shield loss to Arsenal as well as against Burnley in the dying  member of the 3-0 win

Ironically, the Liverpool foe would be the perfect defensive addition to Jurgen Klopp’s new system, where else on the market can you find a player with this much experience, tactical flexibility, quality on the ball and is available to sign?

As it stands Al-Nassr, the same club that already possesses former Liverpool forward Sadio Mane and Cristiano Ronaldo, have seemingly agreed a deal to sign the defender according to David Ornstein at The Athletic.

For Liverpool, a left-footed centre-back had been widely reported to be amongst their key targets, alongside multiple midfielders. They had been previously heavily interested in Levi Colwill, before Chelsea managed to tie him down to a six-year-deal, as well as having a small interest in Tottenham’s signing Micky van de Ven.