Liverpool transfer news: Jurgen Klopp ‘accepts’ final decision with FSG over summer midfield target

Manager Jurgen Klopp performed a U-turn on his transfer plans last week by revealing an arrival was in the works. The Reds still have three senior midfielders out, even if Curtis Jones has returned to full training.

And Thiago Alcantara, Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain have struggled to prove their fitness anyway.

A host of names have consequently emerged on Liverpool’s reported transfer radar in the past few days.

Sheffield United’s Sander Berge, Inter’s Nicolo Barella and RB Leipzig’s Konrad Laimer are all – among others – supposedly under consideration.

But the Daily Mail reports that Liverpool – led by their Fenway Sports Group (FSG) owners – have ‘accepted’ that they will not get a midfielder in before Thursday’s transfer cut-off.

They are instead banking on signing Jude Bellingham from Borussia Dortmund next summer.

Dortmund did not want to sell the 19-year-old England international this summer. They hardened that stance after Manchester City signed their star striker Erling Haaland.

Recent reports have talked of a Liverpool verbal agreement in place for Bellingham next summer. The teenager is expected to cost just over £100million next year.