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Liverpool are being linked with a shock move for Cardiff City goalkeeper David Marshall.

Reds’ boss Brendan Rodgers is looking for a shot-stopper to put pressure on current number one Simon Mignolet, who has come under fire for his performances this season.

With a budget of apparently £5m set aside for the right man, reports from London suggest it is Marshall who has risen to the top of Liverpool’s hit-list.

The Merseysiders are facing tough competition to find a new ‘keeper with other targets apparently destined to go elsewhere.

Australian Mat Ryan, currently at Club Brugge, is wanted by Roma and Fiorentina’s Norberto Neto appears to be heading to Juventus.

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Stoke’s Asmir Begovic is another option, but he is thought too expensive with Liverpool working to a tight transfer budget this summer unless Raheem Sterling exits Anfield in a big money move.

That means Marshall is said to be right on Rodgers’ radar, having been linked with the club before as well as across town rivals Everton.

Marshall’s stunning form in the Premier League also saw him linked with Arsenal and Tottenham last summer, but he stuck with the Bluebirds for a disappointing Championship campaign.

Marshall joined Cardiff from Norwich six years ago and has gone on to make 237 appearances for the club. He was rated the best goalkeeper in the Football League by former boss Malky Mackay and one of very few Bluebirds players to excel during the club’s only season in the Premier.

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Current Cardiff manager Russell Slade has also made no secret of the fact he is a big fan of Marshall, but with his own funds limited in the transfer window in the close season an approach by Liverpool might prove too much for the Bluebirds and the player himself to resist.

The goalkeeping department at Cardiff is set to go through a radical overhaul this summer anyway. Back-up shot-stopper Simon Moore is being linked with a £500,000 move to join new Leeds boss Uwe Rosler at Elland Road.

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Cardiff bought 25-year-old Moore from Brentford in 2013 for £150,000, but he has made just 15 appearances for the Bluebirds since. He was handed a chance to show what he could do last season when Marshall had an ankle injury.

Moore played 10 Championship games, conceding 14 goals and keeping one clean sheet, but once Marshall was fit again he was straight back in.

Current Cardiff goalkeeping coach Richard Hartis is being linked with a move to take up the same position under Rosler at Leeds also. Hartis joined Cardiff with former manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, and had previously been with the Norwegian at Manchester United and Molde too.