​Liverpool's transfer activity is set to speed up over the course of next week after seemingly going quiet recently, according to former BBC journalist Ben Smith.





Liverpool started off their work for the summer in fine form - quickly tying down deals for English youngster Dominic Solanke and a club record transfer for AS Roma's Mohamed Salah.





However, it hasn't all gone swimmingly for Jurgen Klopp; with frustrations growing over the Reds' inability to sign some of their biggest targets, such as Southampton's Virgil van Dijk and RB Leipzig's Naby Keita.

But since a couple of weeks ago, all seems to have gone quiet on the transfer front for the Merseyside outfit, after Leipzig announced that they would not even accept world record bids for their top players.





That is soon to change, though, according to former BBC journalist Ben Smith, who claims that next week will see Liverpool 'gather momentum' in the transfer market once again.

Should start to gather momentum next week — Ben Smith (@BSmith) July 7, 2017

Liverpool boss Klopp hinted at the same thing in an interview at Melwood (Liverpool's training ground) on Wednesday, claiming that there is reason for optimism.





​​" The transfer market opened a few days ago. It will be a difficult like it always is, maybe it’s getting more and more difficult.” the German told the Liverpool Echo.





“We made a lot of good things so far. If you can not see it so far, you can imagine we’ve done a lot behind the scenes.

“But sometimes you need to be patient and that’s what we are at the moment, to wait for the right moment and that’s what we are.





“We will see what happens – but this squad will be stronger this year than it was last year, that’s a real reason for real optimism.”





Whether the Reds will reignite their interest in van Dijk or Keita remains to be seen, but Liverpool fans have reason to be excited.

Who scored these famous last minute goals? Who scored the winning goal in the 94th minute vs. QPR that won Manchester City the title in 2012? Who scored Barcelona's injury-time goal to knock PSG out of this year's Champions League Quarter Final? Who scored for the Netherlands in the 89th minute to send Argentina crashing out of the 1998 World Cup? Who scored the all-important equalizing goal against Greece to send England through to the 2002 FIFA World Cup? Who scored Real Madrid's 93rd minute equalising goal against Atletico Madrid in the 2014 Champions League final to send the game into extra time? You don't know a thing. Better hit the history books! Not bad, but you can do better! Great job! You really know your football history!

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