Bastoni or Schlotterbeck? Liverpool’s Van Dijk Successor Debate
Two elite left-sided centre-backs stand out, but only one truly fits Liverpool’s demands.
Giovanni Leoni, Jeremy Jacquet, who comes next for Liverpool?
With the acquisition of the 20-year-old French defender, the Reds are clearly building for the future.
Summer signing Leoni is expected to form the foundations of Liverpool’s future backline alongside Jacquet for many years to come.
Yet, when it comes to centre-back recruitment, Liverpool are certainly not finished.
Richard Hughes still has the biggest challenge ahead of him – finding Virgil van Dijk’s replacement.
It’s arguably the toughest of challenges of all that he had to face in his Liverpool career so far.
Van Dijk is still ahead of all of his positional peers in world football. When he will have run out of his contract come next season, he will have been at Liverpool for almost a decade.
His long-term presence and his quality has provided Liverpool with the basis for success over the years.
Who can possibly replace him?
We explore two possibilities.
