Former Liverpool youngster Bobby Duncan has called for his old club to sign Jude Bellingham this summer.
The former Fiorentina prodigy tweeted his advice to the Reds, urging them to spend big on a star midfielder for the long-term rather than across a five-year period on multiple options (as relayed by HITC).
The 19-year-old Borussia Dortmund star (on a reported £49,000-per-week, according to Salary Sport) is thought to now be worth in the region of £130m this summer, though it’s unclear whether positive performances in Qatar and beyond the World Cup will boost that figure further.
Whilst Duncan certainly has a point given that we now find ourselves facing the next campaign with a genuine shortage of quality midfielders, it’s perhaps an injustice to overlook how solid our transfer business has generally been in the middle of the park.
Barring the exceptions of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Naby Keita – both of whom have struggled heavily with injury – the likes of Gini Wijnaldum, Fabinho, Thiago Alcantara and, now, Stefan Bajcetic have all proved relative successes.
That being said, given that our Spanish playmaker is the only senior option we’ve signed over the course of the last four and a half years, there’s a very clear need to invest in the department come the end of the campaign.
Signing Bellingham, if possible, would make a great deal of sense not just simply in regard to his generational quality but also in terms of his potential longevity in the sport.