Liverpool given potential Dean Huijsen encouragement as reports of ‘verbal offer’ emerge

Liverpool’s hopes of signing Dean Huijsen this summer may have been given a boost by reports emerging from France.

The Bournemouth centre-back appears to be one of the Reds’ primary transfer targets, with Florian Plettenberg reporting in the last couple of weeks that Richard Hughes has made ‘a strong push’ to try and lure the 20-year-old to Anfield.

It remains to be seen whether or not the Premier League champions will have ‘a free run’ at the Spain international – something at which David Lynch hinted in April ...