VVD succession plan: Liverpool submit ‘concrete offer’ for ‘complete and dominant’ centre-back

A summary of Liverpool’s start to the summer transfer window may read like this: one signed, two incoming, potentially more to follow.

Jeremie Frimpong has already joined from Bayer Leverkusen, and a number of reliable reports indicate that he’ll soon be joined by Florian Wirtz and Milos Kerkez.

It’s not implausible that all three of those deals could be done by the middle of June, which’d leave Richard Hughes with two-and-a-half months to add further signings.

The aforementioned...