Liverpool offered simple transfer of Klopp favourite, as Man Utd find solution to Ugarte problem

Liverpool and Manchester United have both been offered the chance to sign a midfielder that was previously on the radar of Jurgen Klopp for a long period.

The Reds transfer window last summer was dominated by moves for midfielders. Five players left the midfield corps permanently, and four were brought in to replace them.

The main objective of Klopp was a defensive-midfielder, with Fabinho seeming a particularly big loss. He eventually opted for Wataru Endo, who ended up playing 29 Premier League games for the Reds last term.

But the boss spent much of the transfer window courting Borussia Monchengladbach s Manu Kone, with some reports even suggesting there was a feeling in his home country of France that .

Having failed with their efforts to get him las…