Liverpool Transfers: 8 Players Klopp Must Sign

In Europe's top five leagues, only Chelsea dynamo N'Golo Kante made more interceptions last season than Real Sociead's Asier Illarramendi.

The Spain international had a rough couple of years at Real Madrid, but his form since returning to San Sebastian - where he is, if we're brutally honest, punching well below his weight - has shown he is ready for the challenge of Champions League football.

Liverpool have plenty of work-rate and endeavour in the middle, but they lack a genuine tempo-setting play-maker (and have done since the 2009 departure of Xabi Alonso, for whom Illarramendi is a dead-ringer).

Now 27, you get the feeling the metronome is itching for another chance at one of Europe's top sides, and Liverpool is the ideal setting for him to take the next step.