Liverpool are on the prowl for some more midfield help in the summer 2025 transfer window, even though they have unearthed one of the best midfielders in the Premier League this season in Ryan Gravenberch.
Overall, Liverpool have done an amazing job of overhauling their midfield, signing Dominik Szoboszlai, Alexis Mac Allister, and Wataru Endo in the summer 2024 transfer window to provide the Reds with an entirely new base in the middle.
That has proven crucial in returning Liverpool to the status of title contenders in 2023/24 and now overwhelming title favorites in the 2024/25 Premier League season.
Liverpool are monitoring Carlos Baleba
Liverpool wisely remain hungry for more, and although Martin Zubimendi is viewed as a dream transfer target for the Reds, Michael Edwards and Co. are after a top-class option within their own league.
According to Football Insider, Liverpool are interested in signing Brighton star defensive midfielder Carlos Baleba, who has broken out to become one of the best players at the position in the English top flight this season.
Although Brighton have disappointed in recent games, Baleba is carrying the torch left behind by Moises Caicedo with aplomb, and he could be a great box-to-box midfielder with destructive defensive properties – now a missing link for this Liverpool side.
Liverpool had a key weapon in their Champions League triumph in 2018/19 and that was a great, defensive-minded anchoring player in Fabinho. Perhaps Baleba can be kind of that presence next to Gravenberch and the others.
Mac Allister is an example of Liverpool successfully going to the Brighton well, and as the Seagulls continue to develop top tier Premier League talent, one of the league’s best traditional powers will continue to dip into that well for talent.
Baleba is averaging 3.9 combined tackles and interceptions per game for Brighton this season as one of the best defensive players in the league while averaging 2.4 dribbles completed and fouls drawn to aid the Seagulls significantly going forward.
That would enable Liverpool to give Gravenberch more playmaking freedom and perhaps even allow Arne Slot to change things tactically with Szoboszlai or Mac Allister operating as a true No. 10, as Gravenberch and Baleba can function as a world-class double pivot.
Baleba won’t come cheap, of course, as Brighton know they can sell high. At just 21 years old, Baleba is one of the most valuable commodities in the Premier League and will surely have more great teams, such as Chelsea, interested in his services this summer transfer window.
