Jurgen Klopp has performed a U-turn about signing a midfielder and will move before the transfer deadline if the right player is available.
Liverpool's manager had maintained all summer that he would not supplement the additions of Darwin Nunez, Fabio Carvalho and Calvin Ramsay but a combination of factors mean that Klopp has reassessed his position.
Klopp, who on Wednesday held a meeting with his squad during which he got a number of issues 'off his chest', is without the injured Thiago Alcantara, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Naby Keita and Curtis Jones.