Karius, Hector & Chilwell Are Exactly the Type of Signings Liverpool Should Make

It’s all happening at Anfield. Jurgen Klopp has wasted no time pondering the implications of a gutting UEFA Europa League final loss to Sevilla, instead pressing ahead in the transfer market to try to sign better players for his system.

Anyone doubting the overhaul that is about to take place need only take a look at the German’s first transfer window at Borussia Dortmund, where he made seismic changes to the squad and remoulded how he wanted them to play. 

He’s done the latter with Liverpool since arriving—forgoing the pricey January window and only sealing a future transfer for Marko Grujic during that time—but now the revolution truly begins.

Rumours abound that Jonas Hector and Loris Karius are close to signing for the Reds, with the latter reportedly closer to signing on the dotted line than the former.

That’d be a first-team left-back and goalkeeper sorted, and now the Mirror has suggested a £3 million deal could be in the offing for Ben Chilwell, Leicester City’s star young left-back and current England Under-21 international.

Put simply, Liverpool fans should be beaming. While signing three defensive players isn’t the “sexiest” start to a window, these men would fix gaping issues in the squad, and both Karius and Hector would upgrade the starting XI.

The most important thing is they fit the system—something you could rarely say about a Brendan Rodgers signing, largely because the “system” changed every three months, but also because the approach to scouting was so scatter-gun.

Even if all three don’t quite come off, the intent is right, and Klopp is definitely looking in the right areas. The dramatic improvement of the current sub-par crop wearing the red shirt led the club to an unlikely pair of finals this season; just imagine what he can do when he’s working with players that don’t top out at about 60 per cent of what Klopp demands from them?

Karius is one of many young, modern goalkeepers that Germany have produced in the last five years, and the only reason he isn’t a major name is because of the competition he’s up against. He was cut from his nation’s squad for the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championships last summer because they already had Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Bernd Leno and Timo Horn. Talk about depth!

The Mainz ‘keeper is an excellent shot-stopper (which is sort of a prerequisite for a goalkeeper but still an …

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