Liverpool homeowners Fenway Sports Group have been urged to signal a 'younger Steven Gerrard' for supervisor Jurgen Klopp. Former Reds winger Jermaine Pennant has thrown excessive reward in Khephren Thuram's route after weeks of switch hyperlinks between the OGC Nice midfielder and Anfield.

Klopp has already welcomed two midfielders to Merseyside this summer time. Dominik Szoboszlai and Alexis Mac Allister are every anticipated to make an affect on the primary crew in 2023/24, having had weeks to rise up to hurry in pre-season.

Jordan Henderson just lately turned the fifth midfielder to go away Liverpool throughout the present window, and Fabinho is ready to make it six. The Reds subsequently want additional reinforcements, and Thuram is believed to be a participant of curiosity.

Pennant has given his former membership the inexperienced mild by showering the Nice star with reward, evaluating him to Gerrard and branding him an improve on Henderson.

"Liverpool should sign ‘young Gerrard’ Khephren Thuram as their Fabinho replacement - he’d be an upgrade on Henderson," the 40-year-old advised Lord Ping. "I’d like to see Liverpool sign Khephren Thuram, he plays for Nice and he’s a box-to-box midfielder.

"I feel he could be excellent, he’s skillful and he can sort out too. He’s like a younger Gerrard, mainly. He’s a Jude Bellingham kind participant and he’d be your Fabinho substitute and he may play with Alexis Mac Allister. He may cowl the entire of midfield like a greater Henderson."

"Even when he got here to the France crew for his first call-up, I noticed him in coaching and I used to be actually stunned by his dimension and his technical ease. I'd be very joyful for him to return to Liverpool.

"I would take him under my wing and I would do everything for him to progress and become the player he wants to become. He would have to work, but I would do everything to make him a top player."