The Times' Liverpool reporter Paul Joyce reported that Liverpool have always regarded Conat as the first choice for the centre-back position, which is why they finalized the deal early last summer.
It is reported that Liverpool's scouting department has high hopes for Conat, believing that he can become the backbone of the team like Alisson, Van Dijk, Fabinho, Robertson and others in the future, and the above few people are the model of Liverpool's reinforcements.
The report also mentioned considerations for reinforcements when Liverpool suffered a serious centre-back crisis in the winter window last year. At the time, Turin was overpriced against Bremer and Liverpool did offer £16.6 million for Marseille defender Karl, but on the transfer closing day, Marseille did not have time to find a replacement, so the deal was not closed. However, even if Liverpool signed Karl last year, they still would not give up on Cornat.
In addition, Liverpool's previous targets at the centre-back position have been Monaco's Badiacil, Sevilla's Conde and Villarreal's Paul Torres, but Liverpool's always tendentious target has been Conat, who eventually paid a £34 million penalty last summer to take the French centre-back from Leipzig.
(Lin Yuan)
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