Liverpool Eye Fikayo Tomori to Solve Defensive Issues

Andoni Iraola has barely had time to hang his jacket at Melwood and already the fault lines are showing.

Curtis Jones’ public clash with Dominik Szoboszlai has stirred talk of unrest and a possible exit. Joe Gomez’s injury has done something more tangible: it has ripped a hole straight through the heart of Liverpool’s defence.

At 29, Gomez was supposed to be the experienced pillar in a new-look back line. Instead, his absence is expected to stretch beyond the start of the season, leaving Liverpool exposed in the one area no top side can afford to gamble.

Right now, Iraola has just three senior centre-backs. Two of them, Jeremy Jacquet and Giovanni Leoni, have never started a Premier League match. Talent, yes. Battle-hardened? Not yet.

With the new campaign only weeks away, that reality has sharpened minds at Anfield. The solution they’ve landed on is familiar to English audiences: Fikayo Tomori.

Liverpool move for Tomori

According to TuttoJuve, relayed by Sport Witness, Liverpool have now made contact with AC Milan over a deal for the defender. Tomori has only one year left on his current contract and has slipped down the pecking order under Ruben Amorim, a combination that makes him a realistic target and, crucially, a relatively cheap one in this window.

Liverpool are already thought to be weighing up turning that interest into a formal bid. The urgency is obvious. With Gomez sidelined for the start of the Premier League season, Tomori’s arrival would plug a glaring gap in Iraola’s squad and give the manager a defender who knows the league, the tempo, the scrutiny.

The spotlight at Anfield has recently been fixed on Bradley Barcola and the attacking tweaks Iraola might make. Yet the push for Tomori carries just as much weight. Title challenges are built on depth and reliability at centre-back; right now Liverpool are short on both.

Tomori, who has already rejected a move to Coventry City this summer, may now find that patience rewarded. A return to the Premier League, not as a reclamation project but as a key piece in Liverpool’s defensive rebuild, is suddenly on the table.

If Anfield comes calling in earnest, this won’t just be a way out of Milan. It could be the move that defines the shape of Iraola’s first season.