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Ian Mitchelmore

Jamie Carragher's Liverpool transfer demand and where it leaves Swansea City's Rhian Brewster

Rhian Brewster looks set to return to the starting line-up for Swansea City's Championship clash with Huddersfield Town this weekend.

The striker started the 4-4 draw with Hull City on the bench but made a fine impact after replacing Wayne Routledge in the 64th minute, with the Liverpool loanee scoring his third goal for the Swans.

Brewster will hope to further add to his tally when Danny Cowley's Huddersfield visit the Liberty Stadium this weekend.

And those at Anfield have been keeping a close eye on his progress in South Wales.

However, the 19-year-old has an incredibly difficult task on his hands when it comes to forcing his way into Jurgen Klopp's long-term first team plans.

The Reds are already blessed with options in attack, and Kop icon Jamie Carragher has urged Liverpool to add more firepower to their ranks in the summer by signing Borussia Dortmund's Jadon Sancho and RB Leipzig's Timo Werner.

“Things can change very quickly," he told Viasport.

“If you look at Tuesday night (against Atletico Madrid), the big problem for Liverpool is when one of those front three are not playing.

“Sadio Mane had to come off and the player they bring on in is Divock Origi, who is a Liverpool legend because of what happened last year at the Wanda Metropolitano, but it’s not quite good enough for the best team in the world to be bringing that quality on.

“Liverpool do need a top attacking player to come in the summer. Sancho or Werner? I’ll take both.”

Brewster is set to return to Merseyside in the summer once his loan deal with Swansea expires.

With the likes of Mo Salah, Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Divock Origi already at Anfield, Brewster could struggle to make the grade under Klopp next season.

It could well be that he is sent out on a season-long loan deal, although given the financial situation at Swansea, it seems unlikely that a return to the Liberty Stadium would be on the cards.

For the time being at least, Brewster will hope to continue his development under Steve Cooper and bang in the goals to get the Swans' play-off push back on track as well as giving Klopp plenty to ponder ahead of the 2020/21 campaign.

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