Revealed: Liverpool's plan to resolve centre-back CRISIS

Liverpool have been extremely successful this summer, signing each of their main targets.

Most teams have managed to pull off a similar effort and their pockets haven't been as deep as ours.

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To date the Reds have spent £252.2m, which is the most in the Premier League by £12m, which Chelsea in second and Arsenal £48.6m behind them in third. A lot of money has changed hands.

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But with the possibility of spending a British transfer record fee on a deal for Alexander Isak lurking in the distance, the team's need for a centre-back might be forgotten and left until next season.

If that were to happen, then Arne Slot is said to have a number of internal solutions to hand.

Short-term solutions to the centre-back crisis

According to Gregg Evans at The Athletic, we've been getting inventive with our defensive options.

In their latest report, he said: "Centre-back is an area that remains a little light following Jarell Quansah's exit to Bayer Leverkusen. Ideally, Slot would like another defender so he has strong competition for places, and a number of young players have been considered.

"The alternative is turning to either Ryan Gravenberch or Wataru Endo to fill in if Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate or Joe Gomez are not available."

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Naturally, the short-term solutions are using Liverpool's defensive midfielders, which itself causes a number of issues for the team's engine room, but these are not the most favourable of options.

The fee that the Reds received from Leverkusen for Quansah essentially made a deal for the Englishman too good to ignore, when Slot might have been hoping to keep hold of him.

But the situation is what it is now and while a new signing is ideal, we may be forced to compromise.

Liverpool's summer plans were originally considered to be grand and spectacular, as they have been, but not one ever could have envisaged what has come from the transfer window so far.

The additions of Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike, Milos Kerkez and Jeremie Frimpong are game-changing moves that have certainly addressed positions in need of TLC, while bolstering the attack.

I'd hesitate slightly to call the centre-back issue a crisis because there is still time for it to be resolved, but rival teams will be licking their lips if a move fails to come to fruition. The team would be incredibly vulnerable and avoiding defensive injuries already feels like a bit of a losing battle.

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Marc Guehi and Geovanni Leoni are considered targets to bolster the defence and ideal one of them joins the Reds before it's too late, but the Englishman is available on a free next summer and the Italian is still only 18 years old, so it is still up for debate as to how beneficial his move would be.

For the short-term, however, Liverpool have a plan and we've got to trust in those making the decisions, as so far, the team is looking really impressive. But you feel it's a make or break transfer and until the team's last remaining need is addressed, fans will be concerned for this season.

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