6 transfers we want to see in the final week of the January window

Let’s call a spade a spade: the 2024 January transfer window has been pretty damn boring.

Aside from Tottenham – they’ve at least signed Timo Werner and Radu Dragusin – top clubs around Europe have simply refused to do any sort of business that doesn’t involve a young player returning from loan and then going on loan to a different club for the rest of the season.

So in a bid to spice things up a bit heading into the final week of the transfer window, we at 90min have decided to try and wish some signings into existence.

Here’s six transfers we want to see go through before the window shuts…

There’s clearly a good player in Rasmus Hojlund…deep down…somewhere. The ex-Atalanta forward has basically everything you could want in a number nine, but Erik ten Hag was perhaps asking a bit too much of Hojlund when he decided to make him the club’s one and only centre forward heading into the 2023/24 season.

That pressure has not agreed with Hojlund and, as such, he’s managed two Premier League goals all season.

Enter 2022 Ballon d’Or recipient and five-time UEFA Champions League winner Karim Benzema.

Rumours have been swirling regarding Benzema’s potential loan availability this January – thanks to seeming regret from joining Saudi Pro League outfit Al Ittihad – and if they’re true, Manchester United should be first in line to sign the legendary forward.

Benzema would provide United’s forward line with star power, ease the pressure on the young Hojlund, and his ability to drop deep and link play could bring out the best in Marcus Rashford once again.

It’s a transfer that makes so much sense.

Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate have struck up quite an impressive partnership at the heart of Liverpool’s defence this season, but outside of that first-choice pair, Jurgen Klopp doesn’t have too many options to call upon.

Aside from the hugely talented Jarell Quansah and a Joe Gomez who is more regularly used as a full-back these days, Klopp has little else with Joel Matip out with an ACL injury.

When going toe-to-toe with Manchester City for the Premier League, that simply isn’t enough.

In order to bulk up the defensive options, Klopp and co should probably turn to Goncalo Inacio this January. The 22-year-old has the physical stature and capabilities on the ball to fill in for Van Dijk when needed, and has the potential to go on and become a regular when the Dutch star begins to wind…