Liverpool target Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette and Leipzig midfielder Naby Keita for summer spending spree
Jurgen Klopp ready to offload Daniel Sturridge and chase Europe's top talent in bid to rebuild failing Anfield squad
STRIKER Alexandre Lacazette and midfielder Naby Keita top Liverpool's summer wish list.
Boss Jurgen Klopp is threatening a huge overhaul of a squad that promised so much this season only to fall by the wayside in the New Year.
Frontman Daniel Sturridge will almost certainly go - if the Reds can find any takers for the injury-prone former Chelsea man - leaving a gap for £60million-rated Lyon star Lacazette.
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Liverpool will obviously hope to pay less than that, maybe a fee closer to the £40m Arsenal were talking about last summer.
Lacazette, the 25-year-old France international, has indicated the time has come to leave his home country and he wants a Premier League move, with Tottenham also expected to be interested.
Liverpool have been watching him for the past three years and expressed an interest in 2014.
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Lacazette is hot property after scoring 20 goals a season for the last four years at Lyon, with a total of 119 in 262 games.
Keita will cost around £30m from Red Bull Leipzi. The 22-year-old Guinea international is also on the radars of Arsenal and Everton, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund in Germany and Atletico Madrid in Spain.
Naby Keita is rated as the best midfield prospect in Germany and while it is unlikely Liverpool would win a bidding war with such an illustrious list of rivals, they do have the advantage of the player sharing an agent with Sadio Mane — who has done well under Klopp since last summer's move from Southampton.
Klopp will also be looking to strengthen elsewhere, his team having seemingly run out of steam this season despite not being involved in European competition.