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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