During the silly season, players are linked with clubs for amounts that are both beyond unreasonable and moves crop up that are never likely to actually happen.
However, one thing is certain, players will certainly leave clubs in the biggest football merry-go-round of the year. Every team will be the same as they look to improve on whatever kind of season they had last year.
Liverpool are certainly no exception, but without the level of money available to them as both Manchester clubs and Chelsea, Jurgen Klopp will need to sell to add further quality players.
Many have been mentioned and as Klopp starts to rebuild having brought the likes of Joel Matip, Sadio Mane and Loris Karius, so players will leave due to lack of first-team opportunities and to reduce the wage bill.
Here are THREE big name players that could, or will, be leaving Anfield this summer…
Christian Benteke
There are no doubts within the footballing world that this sale is a dead cert.
After Brendan Rodgers splashed out £32.5m for the ex-Aston Villa forward, his form and career have plunged. The laughing stock of strikers, fans of other clubs do not want him at their team in the fear that many more £millions will be wasted.
We are, though, forgetting his goalscoring feats at Villa and maybe the player just needs an arm around him right now to build his shattered confidence. Either way, Liverpool fans will be paying his taxi fare away from Merseyside.
It’s quite evident that he doesn’t fit Liverpool’s style. The fans have been left frustrated by his displays and a move could be ideal for all parties. Benteke is so far down the pecking order now that Mane has arrived that it’s clearly time to go.
Alberto Moreno
The Spanish defender only moved from Sevilla two years ago in a £12m deal, but despite expectations, Moreno has been a huge let down.
As a positive, he is blessed with pace, but as a negative, he has the ultimate modern day full-back problem of committing too many fouls and bombing forward too eagerly, and now Klopp needs to find a player that can slot into the left back position with the necessary defensive qualities.
The jury is 50/50 on this player, but many can see him going back to la Liga this summer.
Jordan Henderson
He is one of those players that appears, by luck, to have got himself into a top team and playing for his country.
After a truly appalling season and EURO tournament, Henderson’s abilities are at best mid-level Premier League quality. Klopp will need better in the middle if he is to succeed and Henderson is not that ilk of player.
The 26-year-old is no Steven Gerrard – who could be? – and he’s not a leader either. He may be energetic and can run all day, but so can next door’s dog. Klopp may have seen enough in his time at Anfield to consider moving him on and if Henderson wants to achieve anything in the game, it will have to be elsewhere, as the German is intent on a re-build.
