Liverpool have tended to be one of the more measured clubs in the transfer market in recent times. The Reds have been content to bide their time in order to secure their first-choice targets, rather than panic-buying on deadline day like many of their peers.
And while they may not abandon that principle entirely, their needs have been brought into sharp focus by the significant injury which Virgil van Dijk suffered in the recent Merseyside derby.
Liverpool look set to be without their top defender for most – if not all – of the rest of this season. So the January transfer window could be one of the liveliest at Anfield for quite some time.
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