Dayot Upamecano ‘among candidates’ for Liverpool centre-back transfer – Liverpool FC

Bayern Munich centre-back Dayot Upamecano has been credibly linked with a transfer to Liverpool by sources in Germany, along with his contract set to run out on the finish of 2025/26.

Liverpool discover themselves in an unsure place on the subject of their centre-back plans, after a failed transfer for Marc Guehi and with talks ongoing over Ibrahima Konate‘s future.

Guehi was poised to hitch from Crystal Palace in a £35 million deal on deadline day just for his membership to drag out on the final minute – and there’s no assure he’ll be part of sooner or later.

In the meantime Konate is but to agree phrases on an extension regardless of his camp receiving presents, with doubts over whether or not he shall be a Liverpool participant past this season.

That has prompted claims of curiosity in Bayern and France defender Upamecano, whose personal contract can be resulting from run out on July 1.

BILD‘s Tobias Altschaffl and Sky Germany‘s Florian Plettenberg have each named Liverpool as an celebration as Bayern battle to tie down their No. 2.

Upamecano has been touted as a goal for the Reds since he was a teen at RB Leipzig, with sturdy hyperlinks up till his €42.5 million transfer to Munich in 2021.

Now along with his deal operating out on the Allianz Enviornment it stands to cause that, as a membership needing reinforcement within the centre-back place, Liverpool may revive their long-standing curiosity.

Konate will not be the one defender dealing with an unsure future, with Joe Gomez extensively anticipated to be on his means out had the Premier League champions managed to shut a deal for Guehi.

Giovanni Leoni can be dominated out for the rest of the marketing campaign – and sure into subsequent season too – having torn his ACL on his debut.

Virgil van Dijk signed a brand new two-year contract on the finish of final time period however he turned 34 in July and the fact is that his sport time might have to be managed sooner or later.

Would Upamecano be the precise match for Liverpool?

Whether or not Upamecano is the precise candidate is a matter for debate, having earned a repute as a rash defender whose front-footed strategy can expose him at occasions.

Nevertheless he’s clearly an achieved, elite-level centre-back who has been a first-choice starter for Bayern for 5 seasons now.

In some ways he’s just like his countryman Konate, and given the potential want to switch their No. 5 that will clarify Liverpool’s renewed hyperlinks with Upamecano.

Arne Slot‘s facet have additionally been credited with an curiosity in Sporting CP’s Zeno Debast and Ousmane Diomande in addition to new claims of a transfer for Dortmund’s Nico Schlotterbeck.

It stays to be seen if Liverpool will look to signal one other centre-back in January, in gentle of Leoni’s harm, however it can’t be dominated out at this stage.