Klopp is looking to reinforce the midfield with another South American star

Alan Varela’s sale to Porto was confirmed this week and the young Argentinian midfielder traveled to Portugal a few hours ago to join his new football club in this summer transfer market. For the vice-president Juan Román Riquelme, and the coach Jorge Almirón was a very important economic help (around 10 million euros) but a difficult place to fill quickly in the starter lineup.

Apart from Varela, Boca Juniors has other options to replace him in the center midfield area. The alternatives are the following: Esteban Rolón, the Colombian Jorman Campuzano, the captain Guillermo Pol Fernández, and Diego González. Those four choices aren’t the unique Almirón must supply the mentioned player who traveled to Europe this morning.

In the professional squad appears the last option to fill this position, a crucial one for the Argentinian trainer because he considered Varela the heart of the team until his departure. This hidden player is Argentinian too, he was born in San Miguel, Buenos Aires, 21 years ago, and his current contract ends in December 2025. 

With a successful background in Tigre last year loaned, he trained in Boca Juniors’ lower divisions for several years, including the Under-20 division. After Moisés Caicedo’s frustrating episode, the chance to hire a new young midfielder from South America was refloated by Liverpool’s scouting team.    

Who is the player Liverpool wants to hire in the future?

According to the English journalist Iván Schwakoff, Ezequiel Fernández is followed by the English club for a long time, before Caicedo’s transfer. He informs that Liverpool has a serious interest in “Equi” after extreme and different analyzes. The 21-year-old midfielder is one of the best promises from Argentinian football, including the Argentinian national team in the future, t-shirt has already been used 13 times by him since 2019 (with one goal).