With Brendan Rodgers preparing his vastly improved side for a return to Europe's elite competition and the pending departure of Uruguyan forward Luis Suarez for around £75m, Liverpool will be aware as a club that lots of top quality needs to come in in order to compete with the physically and mentally demanding season they are about to endure. After adding Adam Lallana, Rickie Lambert and Emre Can, showing strong interest in Dejan Lovren and Lazar Markovic and seemingly missing out on Xherdan Shaqiri and Alexis Sanchez, it is clear that their standard of scouting and the quality of the players they are monitoring have both improved dramatically from this time two seasons ago. Work has, and already is being done in the market with respect to ins and outs at the club, but with an even bigger stack of cash incoming from the Suarez sale to Barcelona, which is expected to go through in the next few days, Brendan Rodgers, Ian Ayre and co. will be looking to try their best to replace the one of the best strikers on the planet.
Names have been circuling the press in recent days with Antoine Griezmann, Gonzalo Higuian and Jackson Martinez examples, and Klaas Jan Huntelaar has been mentioned too, Schalke striker and a member of the Dutch National Team that reached the Semi Finals of the World Cup before their defeat to Argentina on penalties last night. Would he be a suitable addition, of course not to replace Suarez, but to satart to rebuild the gap up front that could be left?
As proven in the Eredivise and the Bundesliga, Huntelaar guarantees goals and absolutely knows where the goal is. You would think that Daniel Sturridge will be responsible for putting the ball in the back of the net next season, but the Reds may need to add 2-3 Champions League proven qualities of the £20m-30m mark and with a squad needed capable of competing domestically and in the European competition, Huntelaar seems like he could be a great start. However, it is not clear as to whether Liverpool would seriously consider a move, whether Schalke would consider selling an integral part of their squad and whether the Dutchman himself would actually be open to a move.
