Liverpool have reportedly agreed a deal in precept to carry Ifeanyi Ndukwe to the membership, in response to Fabrizio Romano.
The Merseysiders are understood to have secured a switch – forward of the summer season window – for the 17-year-old centre-back.
This comes amid the membership’s ongoing push to bolster the ranks with Europe’s prime younger expertise.
Liverpool to signal Ifeanyi Ndukwe from Austria Wien
Romano shared the replace in query on X (previously Twitter), with the Austrian outfit understood to have formally confirmed the deal.
🚨✅ Liverpool agree deal in precept to signal Ifeanyi Ndukwe from Austria Vienna, membership confirms. https://t.co/vYYXtOekn2
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) January 26, 2026
The 17-year-old has featured eight instances for Wien’s youth crew within the 2025/26 season, amassing 548 minutes of motion.
Ndukwe already stands at a towering 6′ 5″ (Transfermarkt) regardless of his relative youth.
Ndukwe doesn’t remedy Liverpool’s three-man downside
Liverpool, it ought to go with out saying at this level, have a three-man centre-back downside.
Virgil van Dijk (whose contract runs till the summer season of 2027) will sit on the coronary heart of our backline eternally. The membership desperately wants to contemplate potential long-term successors for our best fashionable centre-back.
Ibrahima Konate’s future is significantly extra unsure, on condition that ongoing contract talks have but to indicate any indicators of yielding a beneficial conclusion for Arne Slot’s males.
After which there may be the difficulty of Giovanni’s long-term ACL damage. One hopes it is not going to become a case of what may have been for the Italian (who appeared phenomenal throughout his Carabao Cup show in opposition to Southampton).
Allegedly, Liverpool are stated to be choices available in the market, together with Membership Brugge’s Joel Ordonez, however these aren’t thought-about January signings.
Joe Gomez makes it 4?
The place to start with the Englishman! Arne Slot noticed his defensive choices additional diminish after Joe Gomez picked up a knock after a collision with goalkeeper Alisson Becker throughout the 3-2 defeat to Bournemouth.
A freak accident? In fact. But it surely’s yet one more reminder of the previous Charlton academy prospect’s exceptional fragility and unreliability.
Liverpool want availability and, definitely within the case of Van Dijk, longevity.
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