Overview
- Liverpool have intensified contact in recent weeks over Joel Ordoñez after tracking the 21-year-old for about a year, according to TeamTalk reports carried by multiple outlets.
- Club Brugge are reported to be open to a January sale and Ordoñez is described as ready to move to England, with Liverpool and Chelsea both having checked in with his camp.
- Manchester City and Tottenham are also cited as admirers, adding competition to a potential winter move.
- The push follows setbacks at the back, with Giovanni Leoni sidelined by an ACL injury and Ibrahima Konaté struggling for form, leaving Virgil van Dijk, Konaté and Joe Gomez as the senior options.
- Elsewhere in Liverpool’s planning, Sky Sports Switzerland reports very advanced contact over RB Leipzig forward Yan Diomandé, BILD says Nico Schlotterbeck is not a current priority, and Marc Guehi is not expected to leave Crystal Palace in January.