Journalist hints at potential Liverpool right-back raid after Geertruida pursuit hits the rocks

Liverpool reportedly have an alternative right-back transfer target in mind, having had to abandon any prospect of a late-window raid for Lutsharel Geertruida.

On Sunday, The Athletic’s David Ornstein reported that Anfield chiefs had been in talks over a potential loan move for the Dutch defender, who’s at Sunderland for the season after being loaned out by RB Leipzig five months ago.

However, The Times‘ Paul Joyce later confirmed that, despite ‘positive initial club-to-club talks’...