Overview
- Jurgen Klopp revealed on Magenta TV that he wanted to sign Konrad Laimer and would have deployed him as a defensive midfielder in a No.6 role.
- Klopp’s admission makes public a previously private interest from the late 2022 recruitment period when Liverpool were seeking midfield reinforcements.
- Liverpool instead completed a deadline-day loan for Arthur Melo in 2022 that produced only limited first-team minutes and failed to plug the midfield gap.
- Laimer left RB Leipzig for Bayern Munich on a free in 2023 and has often been used at right-back rather than the central anchor position Klopp described.
- Laimer is currently representing Austria at the World Cup and is reported to be in a developing contract dispute with Bayern, a situation that could produce summer transfer movement.