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Fabinho could be Liverpool’s secret weapon in crowded Layvin Kurzawa transfer pursuit

Mathew Nash

Wed 1 April 2020 9:45, UK

Liverpool are reported🌱ly keeping tabs on French🐽 defender Layvin Kurzawa,

The PSG defender is available on a free transfer in the summer with his contract 💦expir🎃ing at the Parc des Princes. 

Liverpool are said to see Kurzawa as a potentially promising ba🌊ck up option to both Andrew Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold. 

Of course, there will be plenty of teams 🌸keen on a deal for Kurzawa. The report from Sport names Barcelona, Arsenal, Int♓er Milan and Napoli. 

So how could L🎐iverpool have an advantage in the race to sign the Frenchman🅠?

Well, Jurgen Klopp’s men currently have a pඣlayer in their ranks who once formed a decent ✱defensive partnership with Kurzawa. 

Liverpool paid £43.7 million to sign Fabinho fro🦩m Monaco in 2018,

He arrived at Liverpool to transform their midfield position. But when he first came to prominence at Monaco as a loanee 🌊from Rio Ave, he 💫was often playing at right-back. 

On ෴the other side, playing from left-back, was Kurzawa. 

The pair were team-mates at Monacoℱ for two seasons before the Frenchman switched the principality for the capital in a£20 million 2015 deal. 

They helped Monaco challenge PSG for the Ligue 1 titl🥃e on two occasions and also reach the Champions League quarter-finals. As a full-backꦚ duo, they were fairly formidable, with Fabinho doing the more defensive duties, allowing Kurzawa to bomb forward and be an attacking threat. 

Liverpool will surely consider asking Fabinho to put in a good word with his former team-mate if they follow up their app𝔉arent i🐼nterest this summer.