Liverpool-linked Gleison Bremer out injured for the season with ACL tear

Liverpool can be pressured to contemplate various switch targets to bolster their backline after Gleison Bremer suffered a season-ending harm.

Fabrizio Romano reported on X (previously Twitter) that the Juventus star will sadly be sidelined for the season after tearing his ACL throughout a Champions League tie with RB Leipzig.

🚨⚪️⚫️ Juventus Brazilian defender Gleison Bremer has torn his ACL with meniscus concerned and he’ll miss the remainder of the season.

Get properly quickly, Gleison! 🤜🏻🤛🏻 pic.twitter.com/QnKdLuki1B

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) October 3, 2024

The Merseysiders have been understood to be eager on adding to their available centre-back options in the summer transfer window, although didn’t get a signing over the road.

Any hopes of Richard Hughes and Co. revisiting the potential of a transfer for Bremer (whom Football Insider claims was a ‘top target’ for the new sporting director) within the winter, nonetheless, have now been firmly shattered.

Liverpool can’t signal Gleison Bremer within the January switch window

Arne Slot’s aspect has been lucky, to date, to have prevented a critical harm disaster. Particularly given their ongoing reliance on Virgil van Dijk on the left aspect of the defence. That’s with out contemplating Ibrahima Konate’s chequered harm historical past and the relative inexperience of Jarell Quansah (21).

Likewise, there stay query marks over the long-term way forward for Joe Gomez in gentle of our reported willingness to commerce within the England worldwide in an attempt to facilitate a transfer for Anthony Gordon.

Regardless, it’s understood that Liverpool are prioritising the signing of a defensive midfielder and a left-sided centre-back in the January transfer window.

In that case, we in all probability wouldn’t have been inclined to push for the signing of the 27-year-old given his choice to play because the right-sided centre-half.

Nonetheless, it’s a disgrace to have the choice off the desk and to see such a gifted participant sidelined.

We’re wishing Gleison the speediest of recoveries!

Who may Liverpool look to signal as a substitute of Gleison Bremer?

Ideally, we’d wish to see Liverpool deal with a left-sided centre-back who may, successfully, shadow Virgil van Dijk.

We’ve seen lots in the best way of hyperlinks to Crystal Palace’s Marc Guehi because the summer time and the Englishman is understood to be keen on a move to Merseyside.

That stated, we’ve received critical doubts in regards to the Selhurst Park star’s credentials as a possible successor to our No.4.

The Palace defender’s aerial prowess (averaging 56.2% in aerial duel success) isn’t similar to Van Dijk’s (averaging 75.8% in aerial duel success) for one, in keeping with stats collected by FBref. Likewise, you simply don’t get anyplace close to the identical stage of reliability on the ball (fiftieth percentile for go completion) or creativity (74th percentile for shot-creating actions).

We realise we’re asking for lots from a possible centre-back signing. Nevertheless, the straightforward reality stays that extraordinary merely gained’t minimize it in the identical sentence as Liverpool’s skipper.

Any potential goal in that regard has to blow us away. Luckily, our recruitment staff may be very well-equipped to search out such a goal.