Liverpool could sign 'next Naby Keita' after update from Spain - 'huge', says pundit
Paul Robinson has urged Liverpool not to sign Chelsea midfielder N'Golo Kante this summer.
Speaking exclusively to Football Insider, the former Spurs and England number one said the 31-year-old's injury record would make the signing "a huge risk."
Kante has entered the final six months of his contract at Stamford Bridge.
According to Spanish outlet El Nacional (29 January), Liverpool are interested in signing the France international as a free agent.
The Reds are in the market for midfielders with Naby Keita, James Milner and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain all out of contract in June.
Robinson compared Kante to Keita because of his injury record.
"There would be a huge risk to signing Kante," he told Football Insider.
"They already have one injury-prone midfielder in Naby Keita. You cannot take on a player like Kante given his injury record. Yes, he is a free agent but he will demand a lot in wages.
"I suspect there is a lot of agent talk in this one. The player is coming to the end of his contract and is not playing week in, week out so his agent will be putting the feelers out.
"There is a whole lot of change going on at Chelsea. A lot of players have come in. Kante probably is going to leave at the end of the season but I question as to whether Liverpool should go for him.
"He is coming towards the end of his career and has injury problems. Liverpool do not need to be signing that kind of player. It would be no more than a stop-gap."