Liverpool are going to be linked with a succession of players during the forthcoming European Championships and Copa America
It's one of the oldest transfer traps into which almost every club has fallen. And Liverpool will be mindful of avoiding tumbling after them this summer.
The Reds will already have done their due diligence regarding potential transfer targets. But even allowing for that homework, there will be some players who, for whatever reason, haven't before been properly tested in such an exalted and high-pressure arena as a major international competition, and whose potential could be overstated by the artificial nature of simply having to show good form over three or four weeks rather than a longer, sustained period.
Chief evidence of that can be seen with centre-backs Torben Piechnik and Phil Babb, who were bought after the 1992 European Championship and 1994 World Cup respectively but neither proved as successful at Anfield as they did in those tournaments.
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