Liverpool’s scouts are understood to have been left highly impressed by the talents of Hwang Hee-chan, if one report is to be believed.
This comes courtesy of Football Insider, with the Wolves star – once flippantly described by a forgetful Pep Guardiola as ‘the Korean guy’ – having notched 14 goal contributions in 21 appearances this term.
Tottenham are also understood to be monitoring the centre-forward’s progress in 2023/24 since his central switch in Gary O’Neil’s side.
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What Liverpool need?
Whilst Hee-chan’s ability to play across the forward line would surely be of interest to a Liverpool outfit set to lose Mo Salah for potentially most of January, it’s difficult to imagine a 27-year-old fitting the profile.
Given there will come a stage where we need to at least think about future-planning for the right-wing role, we’d expect our recruitment team to favour a signing younger than 25 years of age.
That’s not to discredit the Wanderers’ hitman who has been a phenomenal asset for the Midlands side (not to mention FPL players) this year.
It would just represent a sharp change of tack in our recruitment activities.
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Hee – Chan is a good player. He can fit in any teams. To call Pep Guadiola, forgeful is farfetched. Ask coaches from any team in the world will tell you who Guadiola is in the field of soccer.