Southampton manager Mauricio Pellegrino will have money to spend in January and wants to prise Daniel Sturridge away from Liverpool on loan, claims The Daily Mirror.
Pellegrino’s side will receive £75m from Liverpool at the start of next month after finally agreeing to let Virgil Van Dijk move to Anfield and Southampton do not intend to end talks there.
The Southampton manager wants to bolster his squad with more firepower and is hopeful of convincing Sturridge to join the club in order to find regular first-team football.
Sturridge will almost certainly have to leave Liverpool in January to boost his chances of making Gareth Southgate’s England squad for the 2018 World Cup.
Southampton want to strike a loan deal with Liverpool and then turn their attentions to re-signing Theo Walcott from Arsenal, who is in an identical situation to his England international team-mate.
Sturridge and Walcott have only mustered 479 minutes of playing time in the Premier League between them this season, while the latter hasn’t even started a single league game so far this season.
Scoring goals has been one of Southampton's biggest problems this season and they are determined to use the January transfer window to solve it.
