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Gregor Macgregor

Paulo Gazzaniga to Liverpool: Reds stance on transfer as shock Tottenham links emerge

An injury for Alisson Becker will not force Liverpool into the market for a deadline day move for a goalkeeper.

The Brazil no.1 was injured in training on Saturday and missed his team's capitulation at Villa Park on Sunday as Dean Smith's side won 7-2.

Following the game Jurgen Klopp suggested that a shoulder injury may keep Alisson out for six weeks in total - with the shot-stopper ruled out of the trip to Everton after the international break on October 17.

As a result, Spurs' Paulo Gazzaniga has been suggested as a transfer target to head to Anfield and strengthen the ranks.

Tottenham's deadline day plans

However football.london understands that Liverpool do not intend to recruit another goalkeeper in this window and that rules out a move for the Tottenham man, who has fallen behind Joe Hart in the pecking order in north London.

"We were slightly fortunate but it is not that he can play against Everton," Klopp said at Villa Park as he talked through the heavy defeat.

"I think six weeks is maybe more likely but I don't know. So we have to further assess this thing and that is how it is."

Speaking specifically on the goalkeeper situation, Klopp has backed stand-in Adrian.

The Spaniard conceded possession after just five minutes to gift Villa the lead - and now debate rages as to whether a new man in nets - such as Gazzaniga - is needed.

"The first goal was not too cool, of course, but apart from that, I don't think he had anything to do with all the other goals pretty much," Klopp said.

"We didn't help him tonight, let me say it like this. So, he is a really good goalie who played 11 games for us last year [at the start of the season] and that is all fine.

"Tonight, our goalie was not the problem, only around the first goal. And the reaction for that first goal was not his problem, it was our problem."

The Premier League champions will however go with what they have and resist a late move for Spurs' now third-choice goalkeeper.

Gazzaniga has yet to start a game for Jose Mourinho's side this season, after making 18 Premier League appearances in the 2019/20 campaign.

A move for the Murphy-born net-minder may yet take place on transfer deadline day, if not to Liverpool.

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