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Liverpool Plan to End Summer Spending With L15m Double Tottenham Star Raid
Liverpool
are reportedly considering a move to snap up Tottenham pair Vedran
Corluka and Niko Kranjcar as Kenny Dalglish looks to continue his summer
spending spree. Harry Redknapp is keen to bring in funds from the sale
of squad players to help finance White Hart Lane additions and may
consider offers from the Anfield side for the duo.
The Merseyside
club may be helped in their pursuit by the fact that the club’s
director of football Damien Comolli served in the same role at Tottenham
and was involved in the capture of Croatian international Corluka.
The
25 year old defender can play at right back and in the centre of
defence and it’s that adaptability that appeals to Dalglish who is keen
to beef up his defensive options and feels that the experienced former
Man City man can help provide cover in two positions and well as fight
his first team regulars for their spots.
Kenny Dalglish is known
to be an admirer of Niko Kranjcar and with it looking increasingly
likely that Luka Modric will not be joining Chelsea, the former
Portsmouth man is set for another season warming the Tottenham bench and
the Liverpool boss sees the talented flair player as a player who could
fit in on the right side of the midfield, a role that Dutch
international Dirk Kuyt has manfully filled for a few seasons.
However
Kuyt is seen very much as a makeshift solution and Dalglish is thought
to be keen on bringing in a more natural option to add balance to his
midfield.
Redknapp has been told by chairman Daniel Levy that any
significant additions to his squad must be balanced with the sale of
some of his expansive squad and thus far Tottenham have spent very
little in the transfer market but have managed to offload Jamie O’Hara
and Robbie Keane to Wolves and LA Galaxy respectively.
It is
thought that the Croatian pair could be snapped up for a combined fee of
around L15m and given that Liverpool’s owners have already pumped in
over L100m in 2011 on new signings, shouldn’t be a problem funding such a
bid.