Liverpool 'to face competition from Bayern Munich and Manchester United' for Dortmund star Christian Pulisic
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Liverpool face a fight to sign highly-rated midfielder Christian Pulisic.
The 19-year-old Borussia Dortmund star is wanted by a host of European clubs and is expected to move on this summer.
Liverpool are hopeful of securing a deal but will face competition from Bayern Munich and Manchester United, according to Mundo Deportivo.
The American is contracted until 2020 and the German giants are desperate to keep the player at the club.
Having lost Ousmane Dembele last summer, and with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang joining Arsenal, they are aware that he is now their biggest asset.
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7 things we spotted from Liverpool training
Revenge is a dish best served cold - and it looks very chilly on a Friday evening in Liverpool.
Luckily Liverpool are in the mood to make amends this season. After being trounced 5-0 by Manchester City in September they repaid the favour by ending Pep Guardiola's unbeaten run with a 4-3 reverse back at Anfield.
And now for the next opportunity to right a wrong.
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After being trounced 4-1 by Spurs at Wembley - a game Dejan Lovren would like to forget - they now have a chance to make things better against the North Londonders at Anfield on Sunday afternoon.
While some Premier League training grounds were a hive of activity on transfer deadline day , at Liverpool it was very much business as usual.
With no new arrivals it's left to the current squad to make amends.
And from the looks of these training pictures, they're hungry to do just that.
Which leads us to our first point... click here for the 7 observations
Liverpool title "dream" over but top 4 finish WOULD be success
Jurgen Klopp claims a top four finish this season would be a success.
Even before his countryman Didi Hamann became the latest Anfield old boy suggesting he needs a trophy to avoid the sack, the German was aware of the brutal demands a Liverpool boss faces.
Yet Klopp is also a pragmatist who knows that, despite their history, his club has no divine right to success any more... and is now placed firmly behind the bigger-spending aristocrats of Manchester's United and City, Chelsea and Arsenal in the pecking order of English football.
That is why he talks of winning the title being the dream he starts with every season, when finishing ahead of at least two clubs who spend more than Liverpool on wages is a more realistic marker of success in football’s nuclear arms race.
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A home win over rivals Tottenham on Sunday, in a game he cheerfully admits is a “six-pointer” would take them a step closer to that goal this season, and he said: “Top four, for sure, is a success.
“When you start a season, you can dream of something and you have to make a realistic target as well. I think being champion is probably the dream — not only at Liverpool, but especially at Liverpool.
“Because of the season City is playing, that is quite difficult. Then I would prefer to be second if you cannot be first. But if you are second, third or fourth at the end of the season, when you look back all three positions are good — and similarly difficult to reach.
“Arsenal are not out of it. Tottenham is behind all of us at the moment, but only a couple of points. So it is tough to be top four.”