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Liverpool’s midfield summer shortlist does not include England international

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Liverpool’s midfield summer shortlist does not include England international

Liverpool won’t be pursuing Southampton midfielder James Ward-Prowse regardless of hypothesis Jurgen Klopp might look so as to add the English playmaker to his squad in time for subsequent season.

The Daily Mail not too long ago reported that the Reds ‘will await the Saints’ to decrease their £50m asking worth. Nonetheless, in response to The Athletic’s James Pearce, Ward-Prowse, 28, ‘doesn’t match the profile’ of the kind of participant the Merseyside giants need to usher in alongside new signing Alexis Mac Allister.

As for Liverpool and which midfielders they might line up with subsequent season following the current exits of Naby Keita, James Milner and Alex Oxlaide-Chamberlain, there are more likely to be extra first-team alternatives for Stefan Bajcetic and Curtis Jones.

Nonetheless, with Ward-Prowse now unlikely to maneuver to Anfield, there stays big uncertainty over the place the 28-year-old will play his soccer subsequent season following Southampton’s relegation to the Championship final month.

Throughout his time on the south coast which now spans twenty years, Ward-Prowse, who has additionally represented England on 11 events, has scored senior 55 objectives and supplied 53 assists in 409 matches in all competitions.