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Liverpool is reportedly targeting Adam Wharton, who is expected to leave his current club this summer. He is considered a potentially perfect fit for the Reds.
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One rumoured Liverpool transfer target is reportedly expected to move on from his current club during the summer, thus fuelling speculation over a potential switch to Anfield.
Some sources had reported last year that Merseyside chiefs held talks over a proposed swoop for Adam Wharton, although those discussions are understood to have been merely ‘exploratory’.
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The midfielder is set to come up against the Reds when Crystal Palace visit L4 on Saturday week, and his future is in the spotlight once more ahead of the fifth on-field meeting between the teams in the past 11 months.
According to Alex Crook for talkSPORT, Liverpool are once again showing an interest in the 22-year-old, who ‘is expected to leave’ Selhurst Park at the end of the season, with the Eagles placing an £80m asking price on their player.
Anfield chiefs are understood to be exploring prospective midfield signings amid ‘uncertainty’ over the futures of and .
Adam Wharton is expected to leave his current club due to ongoing speculation about his future and Liverpool's interest in signing him.
Liverpool is rumored to be targeting Adam Wharton with a potential transfer fee of £80 million.
Adam Wharton is considered a good fit for Liverpool due to his skills and potential, aligning with the club's needs for the upcoming season.

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Manchester United are also believed to be firmly in the mix for Wharton’s signature, and while Palace are understandably determined to hold onto him, it’s reported that the England international is eyeing an exit from south London ‘in the hope of testing himself at a higher level’.
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Liverpool have a reasonably healthy stock of midfielders as things stand, but if either or both of Jones or Mac Allister were to depart, that could force sporting director Richard Hughes to treat the position with greater priority.
Homegrown, 22 years old and proven in the Premier League, Wharton immediately ticks several important boxes for the Reds, and Crook’s report for talkSPORT says that he ‘provides the perfect foil’ for what Arne Slot needs in the middle of the park.
Whilst playing primarily as a defensive midfielder, the Palace dynamo is more of a creative than a destructive presence, as his underlying statistics from this season (compared to top-flight positional peers) would suggest (see table below, with data from Fotmob).
He certainly wouldn’t come cheap, but he could give Liverpool a hugely influential midfield presence for a number of years if they were to win the race for his signature.
As Hughes knows all too well from the doomed pursuit of Marc Guehi last summer, the Selhurst Park hierarchy can be tricky negotiators, and you can be sure that it’d take all of his powers of persuasion to convince the Eagles to sell Wharton.
His performance at Anfield next week will command particularly close attention from the Reds’ powerbrokers.