The PERFECT defender is ready to join Liverpool | OneFootball

But just who could these defenders be? Guehi will likely be one of them. He's good on the ball, an excellent defender and he's got lots of experience.

He's the perfect fit, especially considering he's available on a free transfer next summer.

To complement him, Liverpool could look to add another centre-back and the perfect option has just presented itself.

As we wrote about, Liverpool scouts have been in awe of Rion Ichihara at the U20 World Cup. The Japanese centre-back scored two goals and put in some outstanding performances to help his side reach the knock-out stages of the tournament.

Only recently turned 20-years-old, Ichihara is still very young when it comes to centre-backs but he seems to have a lot of potential.

He's composed on the ball and is very good at dictating the play from the backline. In Japan's opening game of the tournament he made 28 passes into the opposition's final third.

So, he loves playing the ball forward, which is what Slot needs from his centre-backs but Ichihara is also a great defender who wins a lot of duels.

In the group-stages he contested 10 aerial duels and won every single one of them. In J2 League, he wins 74% of his aerial duels playing for Red Bull Omiya, which is a club currently overseen by Jurgen Klopp in his role at Red Bull.

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