With two additional Liverpool transfers after Roméo Lavia, Jörg Schmadtke could complete the ideal window.

Roméo Lavia appears to be on the verge of joining Liverpool, but Jörg Schmadtke still has work to do before the club’s transfer activity is over.

The hiring of Jörg Schmadtke at Liverpool was met with some skepticism from some Liverpool fans. Despite his success at Wolfsburg, some of the team’s supporters gave him a low rating or even mocked him. However, after a thrilling summer thus far, Schmadtke should be changing people’s perceptions of the German. Roméo Lavia, a promising new hire, appears to be his most recent addition.

The Athletic reports that Liverpool is preparing a second offer for Lavia, and that the negotiations for the player have gone well, increasing the likelihood that the Belgian will sign with Anfield by the end of the summer.

Lavia, who is 19 years old, will join Southampton with an impressive résumé. In his first Premier League season, he won Southampton’s Player of the Year award, and Pep Guardiola, who was then coaching Manchester City, gave him his senior debut when he was just 17 years old.

However, Schmadtke should not consider Lavia’s arrival to be the end of the road. The Liverpool sporting director still has work to do with the transfer window still open and more than a month to go.

Schmadtke should ideally sign another midfielder considering that Jordan Henderson has now publicly announced his departure and that Fabinho might follow him to Saudi Arabia. The ideal candidate for that position would be a ball-winner who can play at number six.

Lavia is a talented and exciting player, but the club would be unfair to use him as the only candidate to take Fabinho’s place. It would be much better if he were accompanied by someone who had a little more experience.

And Cheick Doucouré, the Player of the Year for Crystal Palace, seems like a wise choice in terms of the perfect fit. Manu Koné, in addition to him, might also be a good fit. Despite being injured, he is still worth betting on, especially since he is expected to return by the middle of August.

There is unquestionably a need for a left-sided center-back in the squad as well, away from the middle of the park. There needs to be a Virgil van Dijk backup for Liverpool because there is currently none.

Levi Colwill would unquestionably be the best fit in this position, but Liverpool may not be able to pull that off. In looking for alternatives, Schmadtke might find Slovakian international Dávid Hancko to be the best fit.

In terms of what Jürgen Klopp looks for in his center backs, he checks a lot of boxes because he is tall, imposing, relatively fast, and very skilled with the ball. Hancko was the subject of a more thorough profile by Liverpool . com, which you can read here.

The German may very well pull off a perfect transfer window for Liverpool if Lavia shows up, Schmadtke can sign one of Doucouré or Koné, plus Hancko.

This summer, the team needed to be strengthened while also being revitalized by younger players.
You could say Schmadtke’s goal was accomplished because Hancko, the oldest of the aforementioned potential Liverpool signings and those who actually signed, is 25 years old.