{"id":639832,"date":"2024-05-24T09:49:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T13:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=639832"},"modified":"2024-05-24T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T13:49:23","slug":"liverpool-summer-move-feyenoord-shot-stopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/05\/24\/liverpool-summer-move-feyenoord-shot-stopper\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Considering Summer Move For Feyenoord Shot Stopper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With Liverpool looking to revamp their squad for the following Premier League season, Dutch media outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraaf.nl\/sport\/8863262\/engeland-lonkt-voor-justin-bijlow-feyenoord-keeper-op-shortlist-arsenal-en-liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">De Telegraaf<\/a> confirm that the club has added Feyenoord shot-stopper Justin Bijlow to its shortlist for the goalkeeper position.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h2>Liverpool Eyeing Transfer Swoop Justin Bijlow<\/h2>\r\n<h3>Bijlow on Liverpool&#8217;s Shortlist<\/h3>\r\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bijlow has been in and out of the Feyenoord starting lineup this season due to injury, playing 24 times across all competitions for the Dutch side.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/05\/22\/jurgen-klopp-ten-best-liverpool-players\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Jurgen Klopp Top Ten Liverpool Players<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Interestingly, the decision to shortlist the 26-year-old\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">wasn&#8217;t influenced<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0by Arne Slot&#8217;s appointment to the Merseyside\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">giants<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> as the club&#8217;s scouts had been watching the player even before Jurgen Klopp&#8217;s announcement to leave in January.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h3>Justin Bijlow: A Closer Look<\/h3>\r\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The goalkeeper signed his first professional contract with Feyenoord in February 2015 after moving through the ranks at the academy. The following season, he would only become an unused substitute as the Dutch side lifted its first league title in eighteen years, but the 2018\/19 campaign would be Bijlow\u2019s breakthrough season as he <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">was announced<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> the club\u2019s first-choice goalkeeper.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 26-year-old would then\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">go on to<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0keep a clean sheet and save two penalties in the Johan Cruyff final but lost to PSV Eindhoven. Bijlow\u2019s performances have been instrumental in Feyenoord\u2019s recent success, as the Dutch goalkeeper made 24 appearances under Arne Slot and managed to keep nine clean sheets despite struggling with two separate injuries (wrist and calf).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h3>Transfer Uncertainties<\/h3>\r\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In recent weeks, Liverpool has seen several departures following Klopp&#8217;s confirmed departure in January. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/05\/17\/three-players-leave-liverpool\/\" target=\"_self\">Cameroonian defender Joel Matip and Spanish midfielder Thiago Alcantara both announced their immediate departures at the end of the season<\/a>. With Slot coming in next term, Liverpool will be looking to improve their squad, but they&#8217;ll also be monitoring the goalkeeper situation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/05\/21\/liverpool-jota-euro-2024-portugal\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool Star Makes Euro 2024 Squad Despite Injury Concerns<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Third-choice keeper Adrian has openly expressed his desire to return to La Liga, and second-choice keeper Caiomhin Kelleher may explore a summer transfer for game time despite having two years left on his contract.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h3>England&#8217;s Interest Not New<\/h3>\r\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/4658551\/2023\/07\/01\/manchester-united-justin-bijlow-transfer\/?redirected=1\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Athletic<\/a>, Manchester United\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">made contact with the Feyenoord man back<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in July 2023 to acquire his services in addition to the signing of Champions League winner Mason Mount from Chelsea. De Telegraaf also noted that<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Arsenal have been recently linked to the goalkeeper as <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">it&#8217;s stated<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0that Arteta is looking for someone able and ready to compete with David Raya immediately, similar to Ederson and Stefan Ortega in Manchester City.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> The signing of a new goalkeeper appears to be a top priority for Arteta, as he wants to agree to a deal to sign someone in the coming weeks, with the Feyenoord shot-stopper deemed\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">a very serious<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0option.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Although Bijlow\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">reached an agreement<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> with the team to extend his contract to mid-2025 back in August 2021, with the transfer merry-go-round happening in the football world at the moment, it would be interesting to see where he could end up.<\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Liverpool looking to revamp their squad for the following Premier League season, Dutch media outlet De Telegraaf confirm that the club has added Feyenoord shot-stopper Justin Bijlow to its shortlist for the goalkeeper position. Liverpool Eyeing Transfer Swoop Justin Bijlow Bijlow on Liverpool&#8217;s Shortlist Bijlow has been in and out of the Feyenoord starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5151,"featured_media":629332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,7188],"tags":[7298],"class_list":["post-639832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-liverpool-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}