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The club will be actively trying to find a home for their
remaining fringe players in January.
When the transfer
window slammed shut on Monday, the Reds had failed to shift
three fringe first team players and were left with one too many
foreign senior players, forcing the loan of Marko Grujic to FC Porto to avoid a situation
where the Serb would be stuck with the U23s this season.
However, even with Grujic’s departure, that leaves the club with
Xherdan Shaqiri and Harry Wilson—both with
space in the squad, in Wilson’s case thanks to the fact he’s
homegrown, but with neither expected to be regulars in the matchday
squad barr ing a slew of injuries in the coming months.
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As a result, The Daily Star and others today claim the club will
spend the next two-and-a-half months actively looking for permanent
transfers for the duo in the hopes they can be placed at new clubs
for £25M and £20M respectively when the January transfer window
opens.
In the meantime, the two players will train with the first team
and with a few injuries or coronavirus absences and some hard work
could perhaps still have a future at the club—but it does seem
likely that early January departures would be best for all parties
if interested buyers can be found.