Liverpool and Wales full-back Neco Williams has cut short a break in Dubai in order to thrash out his future.
Our colleagues at the Liverpool Echo report that the Reds have received an inquiry from Championship side Bournemouth to take Williams on loan until the end of the season.
The 20-year-old has failed to oust Trent Alexander-Arnold from the Liverpool starting XI this season, and with the incumbent considered one of the best full-backs in European football, Williams will likely have to seek game-time elsewhere in order to progress.
He has turned out just eight times this season.
The Reds are said to be open to letting him leave on a short-term deal.
Getting minutes under his belt will be important to Williams with such a big year ahead on the international front.
Wales face a World Cup play-off semi-final against Austria in March with a potential final against either Scotland or Ukraine the prize for the winners. The victors of that game will earn themselves a place at the World Cup in Qatar at the end of the year.
Wales boss Rob Page emphasised the importance of players featuring regularly for their clubs when speaking last November.
“The players want to be playing football, how can they not?" Page said.
"When you are involved in games like that [against Belgium], you can’t buy that feeling.
“When you have come off and you have played really well and you listen to the supporters, you can’t buy that.
“They will want to recreate that week in, week out. Players will want to play games.
“For whatever reason domestically they don’t, that is fine, every manager has his own opinions. I can’t influence that.
“All I can influence is encouraging the players to want to go and play domestic football, whether it is at their parent club or elsewhere.
“That is what we are encouraging them to do."
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp took a slightly different view to Page when presented with the Wales boss' comments before the turn of the year.
Klopp said: "We are really short of players. The last thing I’m thinking about is who could go on loan in the winter.
“In Neco’s case, I can 100 per cent understand that my colleague from Wales said he thinks it would make sense that they play.
“But they are nearly qualified or can qualify for the World Cup with a lot of players who are not first choice in their teams.
“So I think it makes absolute sense that Neco is here developing every day, and that’s what he’s doing. And to fight through the situation, that’s what he’s doing.
“Just going on loan, you never know where they will end up – not Neco, but in general.
“First and foremost you have to make sure you fight where you are, because if you don’t sort your problems where you are, you will carry them with you to the next club as well."
Klopp's view now may well have changed, with options available to the German should Alexander-Arnold get injured.
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