Christian Pulisic is not a name that’s new to Liverpool fans.
The Reds reportedly failed with an £11m bid for the 19-year-old attacker in the 2016 summer transfer window but have remained admirers of the teenager.
Jurgen Klopp was the man who brought the USMNT star to European football in 2015 whilst in his final season at Borussia Dortmund and has been keen to bring him to Anfield since taking the reins at Liverpool.
So far, Dortmund have successfully fended off interest in their promising young attacker but Liverpool are expected to renew their interest in the summer, two years after their first attempt.
Speaking on The Totally Football Show on Monday, German football journalist Rafa Honigstein revealed he would be surprised if Liverpool didn’t try and sign him next summer.
Christian Pulisic is a player Liverpool have tried to buy before [and] I’d be very surprised if they don’t come in heavily for him next summer.
But he wouldn’t be a replacement, because he’s a little bit like Coutinho when he arrived five years earlier.
Pulisic has 11 goals and 14 assists in 78 career appearances for Dortmund, but Honigstein believes the young attacker isn’t quite ready to be a like-for-like replacement for Philippe Coutinho.
He’s not quite ready to play in that central role, he’s more of a winger, more of a No. 10. He just has one or two touches and wouldn’t be right. Even if Dortmund were prepared to sell him, which they aren’t, he wouldn’t be able to do what Coutinho had been doing for the team.
