Liverpool may plausibly sanction the exits of some gamers within the January switch window regardless of the presently threadbare standing of Arne Slot’s squad.
In keeping with the Premier Accidents web site, the Reds could possibly be with out as many as six gamers as a result of damage for the fixture in opposition to Wolves on Saturday, and that doesn’t embody the absences of Mo Salah (Africa Cup of Nations) and Dominik Szoboszlai (suspended).
Lengthy-term layoffs for Giovanni Leoni and Alexander Isak have contributed in the direction of a sparsity of depth in defence and assault, though a report from a trusted supply means that gamers in each of these areas of the pitch could possibly be allowed to go away L4 subsequent month.
Liverpool duo touted for potential January exits
The newest version of The Athletic‘s Switch DealSheet was revealed on Boxing Day morning, and two Liverpool kids have been touted for potential exits in January.
The winter window is described as an ‘very best’ alternative for Trent Kone-Doherty to depart on mortgage, with golf equipment persevering with to trace the progress of the 19-year-old winger.
In the meantime, Rhys Williams is anticipated to draw ‘contemporary curiosity’ within the coming weeks after being unable to safe a brief transfer away from Anfield through the summer time.
Neither is more likely to play a lot for Liverpool this season
Even with Liverpool in need of so many first-team gamers over the festive interval, it’s solely believable that the membership may enable the aforementioned duo to go away in January.
Whereas Kone-Doherty may present vast attacking depth off the bench if required, Anfield chiefs may viably sanction a mortgage exit for a participant who’s had simply two substitute cameos in home cups for the Reds’ first group.
{The teenager} may gain advantage significantly from senior publicity at an EFL membership within the second half of the season, supplied that the group he’d be a part of would be capable of present him with common game-time and never merely consign him to a watching transient from the substitutes’ bench.
As for Williams, not even a scarcity of centre-back depth since Leoni’s ACL damage has granted him any actual window of alternative underneath Slot, with the 24-year-old not even making a matchday squad since being an unused substitute within the Carabao Cup win over Southampton in September.
The Preston native memorably stepped up alongside Nat Williams through the 2020/21 season as Liverpool miraculously salvaged Champions League qualification, however it’s unmistakably clear that he’s not within the plans of our present head coach.
An EFL membership may search to rearrange a half-season mortgage for the defender earlier than his Anfield contract expires subsequent summer time. If that have been to occur and he makes a constructive influence, it’s viable {that a} everlasting deal may subsequently be organized to take impact from 1 July.
With neither participant more likely to be afforded a possibility by Slot within the second half of the marketing campaign, they might plausibly be loaned out in January and may hopefully get pleasure from some much-needed first-team publicity within the first few months of 2026.
