For love of Liverpool, Klopp stays, but demands this signing

Unsurprisingly, the list of players with contracts only valid until June of this year are some of the most sought-after players on the market; not surprisingly, they are free agents, able to negotiate with whomever they wish without having to report to their club. And one of these masterpieces in Todd Boehly's Chelsea squad is N'Golo Kanté, a player who is on Barcelona's agenda and who is now wanted by Jürgen Klopp.

This is according to the Echo, a daily newspaper that is close to the Reds and which has the French midfielder as one of its next targets for a part of the team, the midfield, which is posing a puzzle for the German manager this season and which lately, just days before their clash with Real Madrid in the last 16 of the Champions League, is arousing a huge amount of criticism in the city of the Beatles.

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Kanté, it seems, is Klopp's measured response to a midfield in need of a top-notch balancer, Kanté being one of the best in the world. It is surprising, however, that both Barcelona and Liverpool are interested in the World Cup winner with France at the 2018 World Cup, where he partnered Pogba, due to the long absence he has accumulated with his Chelsea team, where he has yet to play this season.

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In this sense, it is also striking that despite the huge amount of money that the London team has invested, they have not been able to convince Kanté to stay; that said, Liverpool want to be his new destination even ahead of the interest of Barça and more remotely of PSG. It is also clear from the mass media that this option would not be at odds with Liverpool's interest in Jude Bellingham.