Liverpool hasn’t stated that they intend to press forward with a january signing of fulham left-back antonee robinson. Since the start of october, the reds have lost both of their senior left-back options, andrew robertson and kostas tsimikas, to serious injury, forcing joe gomez to switch flanks in order to provide cover. Robertson has spent a few months in the hospital after a dislocated shoulder sustained on international duty with scotland in october, and jurgen klopp could be able to work around his injury until february. during last weekend’s 1-1 draw with arsenal, tsimikas was involved in a collision with klopp, who was out-muscled by bukayo saka and clattered into the german inside his technical zone. In the unfortunate event, tsimikas sustained a collarbone fracture, putting robertson’s main backup option out for a long time, and klopp has expressed worry about the burden on gomez, who has suffered a troubling injury in the past.
Klopp will step into liverpool’s academy ranks alongside gomez to strengthen his left side, with calum scanlon and luke chambers both of whom have received first-team minutes in this season’s europa league. However, liverpool have been linked with a signing of an experienced left-back midway through the season, considering the teenagers’ inability to grasp the premier league. robinson has apparently been spotted as a potential target. The reds are said to have launched an investigation into a potential move for robinson, but liverpool has no intention of attempting to take him away from craven cottage, according to the mirror. Robinson plied his trade in the youth academy of liverpool’s sultry rivals, everton, whom he joined in 2008 but failed to make a single senior appearance, also being loaned out to bolton wanderers and wigan athletic. Wigan sold robinson to fulham for £1.8 million in the summer of 2020, and the 26-year-old has established himself as a respected premier league left-back at craven cottage, making 128 appearances for the cottagers. Fulham have three goals and nine assists in their 128 appearances, including three goals in three premier league games this season against aston villa, wolverhampton wanderers, and liverpool.
Manchester city was said to have been interested in a new contract for robinson, who played every minute for his country at the 2022 world cup, but fulham rewarded the treble winners by signing robinson down to a new deal until 2028 this summer. The west london outfit is therefore unlikely to sell the defender in the near future, and liverpool would be paid a premium if they were to pursue a january transfer. Liverpool are said to have taken to liking fluminense’s nino because he isn’t on the cards for a move, though the 26-year-old is more comfortable in the middle of defence than as a left-back.
