Liverpool lining up Sevilla swoop

At the top of Kenny Dalglish’s shopping list in the January transfer window is likely to be a new striker to provide support for Fernando Torres and competition for David N’Gog. The AS newspaper is claiming that Alvaro Negredo may well be that man, as Liverpool are reportedly lining up a 20 million Euro bid for the Spanish forward.

The 25-year-old currently plays for Sevilla in La Liga and has the nickname ‘The Beast of Vallecas’. This season he has scored six goals and also has five assists to his name, hitting the back of the net every 130 minutes in La Liga, which is a ratio of a goal every one-and-a-half games.

Negredo has four caps and two international goals for Spain and is thought to be the complete striker. Like the majority of Spanish players he is technically sound, has a strong left foot, is an accomplished finisher, solid in the air and has decent speed.

Liverpool’s Director of Football Strategy Damien Comolli is thought to have kept a close eye on the striker and a bid is set to be made imminently. Whether Negredo would be a replacement for Torres is unclear, but Liverpool fans will be hoping they have an all-Spanish strikeforce come the end of January.

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