Jurgen Klopp is ready to sign the Porto wonderkid Ruben Neves. Most sane people might assume he’d want to spend at least a couple of weeks with his new players, judging their strengths and weaknesses, and figuring out what he needs.
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The Reds’ interest in the 18-year-old is believed to pre-date Jurgen Klopp’s appointment as manager, but having become the first club to make their interest known it would appear the approach has received the German’s blessing. In two and a half months when the January transfer window opens, naturally. In total, he has now made 42 appearances for the Primeira club since his debut in 2014 after joining Porto’s academy as an 8-year-old. He has yet to represent Portugal at senior worldwide level.
The Porto midfielder is of the highest calibre for his age group, and could go on to become a world-class player-a standard Liverpool have been missing in this role since Xabi Alonso left for Real Madrid in 2009. It’s not out of the question he could also develop into a driving, box-to-box player, similar to compatriot Joao Moutinho.
With that in mind, Football FanCast have conjured up this “Dream XI” of what Liverpool could one day look like under their new gaffer, combining the Reds’ top performers with rumoured transfer targets.
And the Premier League champions may have the final say given that Mendes’ clients also include Blues boss Jose Mourinho and strikers Radamel Falcao and Diego Costa, who reportedly snubbed an approach from Liverpool in summer 2013.
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For an 18 year old, that is a really big deal and you can see from his great stats that this is one silver card that you may want to snap up from the transfer market as soon as possible.
