Get it done, Real Madrid star can excel under Andoni Iraola | OneFootball

Get the deal done - one Real Madrid star would thrive at Liverpool under Andoni Iraola. He's available on the cheap, too.

Liverpool need a midfielder. That was clear last season and it's abundantly clear now - they have essentially built a group of midfielders who largely do the same thing.

There's a good reason for that, too: all of their options were attacking midfielders in a previous life. Ryan Gravenberch, Dominik Szoboszlai, Alexis Mac Allister and Curtis Jones were effectively no.10s at one stage in their respective careers.

Even if they may play very well a little deeper, it's a group of players who are at their best when attacking the opposition box. That doesn't lend itself to a midfield that controls games, as we saw under Arne Slot last season.

The problem is two-fold, really. Liverpool have a group who prefer to receive the ball on the turn between the lines, rather than dictating tempo face-up.

They're also not very good at tackling. Liverpool struggle badly to win the ball back as they lack the right players to do it. That's a mix of poor pressing but also simply a void in the middle of the pitch - teams frequently run straight through them.

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There is a player who can fix that, though. Eduardo Camavinga is available to buy from Real Madrid if a club can convince him.

Los Blancos, by all accounts, want to sell him. Camavinga himself is the one holding things up as he isn't sure he should leave - Liverpool, though, have a great chance of convincing him as they're desperately in need of a player just like him.

Camavinga is more than comfortable on the ball, while offering an ability to both win it back and cover the left flank from a midfield position. That happens to be exactly what Liverpool need - a defensive presence who can provide Milos Kerkez with a licence to get forward.

We'd love to see the Reds make this move, especially at the £42m price quoted in some reports (such as the Manchester Evening News). There won't be many better deals done than that this summer, at Liverpool or otherwise.