West Brom: Imagine Clarkson and Yokuslu

West Bromwich Albion are reportedly considering signing Liverpool teenager Leighton Clarkson on mortgage this month, and the midfielder might kind an excellent partnership with Okay Yokuslu in Carlos Corberan’s facet.

In response to Football Insider, a variety of Championship golf equipment together with the Baggies, Studying and QPR are eager on signing the 21-year-old on mortgage this month after his spectacular shows in Scotland with Aberdeen.

Whereas Jim Goodwin’s facet are understandably eager to maintain him at Pittodrie for the rest of the season, it’s steered that Liverpool might terminate his mortgage with the Dons so as to give him extra expertise in England.

Final season noticed Clarkson be part of Blackburn Rovers on mortgage however he was restricted to only seven appearances within the second tier earlier than returning to Anfield in January, that includes in Premier League 2 fixtures for the rest of the marketing campaign.

Nevertheless, his spell with Aberdeen has been much more fruitful, as he boasts 5 objectives and two assists in 21 appearances, so it’s straightforward to see why he’s attracting Championship curiosity this month.

Klopp has definitely tipped the teenager for large issues at Liverpool, likening him to Bayern Munich and Germany icon Phillip Lahm for his type of play.

The Reds supervisor said: “Leighton is likely one of the greatest abilities in our membership, he’s been there for ages. He’s a midfielder, a quantity six sort, can play eight as nicely.

“He’s a really proficient, good football-playing boy. In Germany there’s a well-known participant who performed just like him, you may need to return somewhat bit longer, I don’t need to put stress on the boy. However he jogs my memory a variety of him.”

A ball-playing midfielder akin to Clarkson might work fantastically alongside a bodily ball-winner like Yokuslu as Corberan appears to proceed the Baggies’ surge up the Championship desk within the second half of the marketing campaign.

The Turkish midfielder is ranked as West Brom’s joint-top performer within the Championship marketing campaign in response to WhoScored and has the perfect tackling common at Albion with 1.9 per recreation. Nevertheless, his common midfield associate Jayson Molumby scores far much less impressively, rating a lowly seventeenth in Corberan’s squad.

Clarkson not solely averages extra key passes (1.1 vs 0.4) and photographs (one vs 0.8) per recreation than Molumby, but additionally extra tackles (1.6 vs 1.2) and interceptions (0.6 vs 0.5) in 2022/23, which means that he may very well be a greater associate for Yokuslu in the midst of the park than the Irishman.

Their contrasting enjoying types and physiques might work wonders for Corberan for the rest of the season, so the West Brom supervisor ought to undoubtedly take a look at bringing the Liverpool teenager to The Hawthorns this month.