Liverpool transfer news LIVE: Yankuba Minteh bid, Andoni Iraola midfield claim, latest updates today

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The Reds person begun their betterment aft Sunday's chaotic 2-2 gully against Newcastle United in the Premier League, which exposed limitations that Andoni Iraola and co person been urged to rectify successful the coming days.

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Iraola makes midfield signing assertion aft Newcastle 2-2 Liverpool

Liverpool transportation quality today: What's happening connected August 24?

Liverpool are believed to beryllium pushing for a 3rd bid to onshore Brighton & Hove Albion winger Yankuba Minteh aft 2 offers, the astir caller worthy £60m, were turned down.

Brighton are understood to beryllium holding retired for a interest person to £70m, leaving Iraola with a genuine dilemma implicit however acold to propulsion a woody for a subordinate who scored lone 3 league goals past season.

Liverpool's involvement successful Minteh comes arsenic they proceed to beryllium linked with Paris Saint-Germain duo Bradley Barcola and Ibrahim Mbaye, with PSG leaving some wingers retired of caller matchday squads amid the speculation.

Signing each 3 forwards successful 1 model is highly unlikely, and reports suggest Minteh could alternatively beryllium viewed arsenic an alternate to Mbaye alternatively than an summation alongside him.

On the pitch, Iraola has defended his midfield pairing of Ryan Gravenberch and Dominik Szoboszlai pursuing the four-goal Magpies draw, successful which Szoboszlai's injury-time punishment rescued a constituent aft the brace were exposed for some location goals.

The Liverpool brag insisted that antiaircraft solidity is "not conscionable personnel" and tin beryllium corrected done amended squad signifier alternatively than a caller signing successful that area.

That stance is understood to person frustrated immoderate supporters who judge a caller antiaircraft midfielder is required earlier the model closes connected September 1.

Liverpool's touchline explanations person done small to dampen suggestions that Iraola's radical arsenic presently assembled volition not beryllium capable to prolong a superior rubric challenge.

With Alexis Mac Allister, Trey Nyoni, James McConnell and Wataru Endo making up the remainder of Liverpool's midfield options, reports suggest the nine could inactive determination for reinforcements earlier deadline day, adjacent if Iraola's nationalist connection continues to beryllium 1 of patience with his existing group.

Newcastle's William Osula and Anthony Elanga punished a sloppy Gravenberch walk wrong 5 minutes astatine St James' Park, portion Joe Willock's decorativeness moments aft Cody Gakpo's equaliser near Liverpool needing a stoppage-time spot-kick conscionable to salvage a point.

Gakpo's ain aboriginal remains a unrecorded subplot, though determination is simply a increasing anticipation that helium volition snub Tottenham Hotspur to proceed astatine Anfield arsenic the Lilywhites adjacent successful connected Savinho and Omar Marmoush.