Rodgers mulls over targets in search for Liverpool playmaker
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers is set to intensify his search for a midfield playmaker as he looks to narrow down his list of targets a Footy Bunker source tells us.
The Northern Irishman has drawn up an extensive list of players from around Europe that he’d like to bring to Anfield in the summer as he looks to bolster his ranks before the new Premier League season begins.
Finding a new creative presence to operate alongside captain Steven Gerrard has emerged as his top priority with the Reds guilty of lacking imagination in the centre of the park under Kenny Dalglish last term.
Rodgers currently has five names on his shopping list that he must whittle down to just one with AZ Alkmaar’s Rasmus Elm and said to be hot favourites to land him.
The Sweden international reportedly wants to leave the AFAS Stadion with just one year left on his contract and was linked with an £8 million move to Anfield in April.
Elm was identified as a possible signing by former director of football Damien Comolli after scoring 13 times in 36 game in the previous campaign and it seems Rodgers will reignite that interest.
Should he fail to sign the 24-year the ex-Swansea City boss has sounded out Celtic’s Ki Sung-yueng and Schalke duo Julian Draxler and Lewis Holtby as alternatives.
South Korea international Ki has impressed during three-years at Parkhead and is also being chased by QPR, Rubin Kazan and Deportivo La Coruna.
However, Rodgers is ready to jump to the front of the queue and make a £7m swoop as he believes the 23-year-old will suit the passing style he wants his side to play.
Ki has 18 months left on his contract at the Hoops but won’t make a decision on his future until after the Olympics in London next month.
