5 top goalkeeping talents being targetted by Liverpool

#4 Bernd Leno (Bayer Leverkusen)

The German would be a classy inexpensive option

It seems a foregone conclusion that the German international has played his last game for the team (Lukas Hradecky has already joined from Eintracht Frankfurt) and it is only a matter of time until a club comes in and meets Leverkusen's financial demands.

While the 26-year-old may be feeling blue due to being dropped from Germany's World Cup squad, it is by no means an indictment of his talent as Die Mannschaft manager Joachim Low has the luxury of calling on some of the best goalkeeping talents in world football (Manuel Neuer and Marc Andre ter-Stegen).

At 1.9m, Leno keeps in tradition with the German style of producing tall goalies and is more than capable of producing the goods for Liverpool. Quick of his line, he is agile and capable of making breathtaking saves (and a few clangers but nothing on the Mignolet/Karius scale).

Having been number one in a Die Werkself side that plays a similar pressing style to Liverpool's, Leno will slot right in as Number one and his leadership and authoritative style would help in further solidifying a defence that has gotten better since the world-record (for a defender) arrival of Virgil Van Dijk.