Liverpool are reportedly making plans to follow up a deal for Florian Wirtz by reactivating interest in Hugo Ekitike - while seven stars are free to leave.

Liverpool may have wooed Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong with a touching gesture to Bayer Leverkusen last November. Way before both clubs were engaged in a series of transfer discussions this summer, they met in the league phase of the Champions League last winter.

The transfer window won't be closed for long, and Liverpool will have plenty of business to do when it reopens as Florian Wirtz looks set to complete his move