Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said the club are still very much interested in signing Fulham midfielder Fabio Carvalho in the summer, after a January move broke down at the final hour.
Klopp confirmed widespread media reports that Liverpool made a move to bring in the 19-year-old on Monday's deadline day, only for the club to run out of time to complete the transfer - something that will not deter the Reds from trying again.
"We will see with that. Of course, we are obviously still interested," Klopp told a news conference on Friday ahead of this weekend's FA Cup clash with Cardiff City. "It would be crazy if we were not.
"It was late to do the deal before the transfer window closed again. And so in the end it did work out but yeah, we'll see what happens. These things are sometimes out of our hands."
One deal Liverpool did get over the line was the capture of Porto winger Luis Diaz for a reported fee of €45million, and Klopp could not contain his excitement.
"We like pretty much everything about him," Klopp said. "I followed him for a while. Not only since we played them (Porto) twice in the Champions League, so he is an exceptional player.
"He has this speed, skill set, he has the character to have a really good career and we all want him to have this career here with us.
"He is maybe a little bit of a late bloomer, but he has bloomed exceptionally well. We are really happy that we could get him in now and we can help him and he can help us."
Diaz could be a late addition to Liverpool's squad for Sunday’s FA Cup fourth-round visit of Cardiff.
The Colombia international was still in Paris on Friday awaiting his visa, which meant he is unlikely to meet his new team-mates until the weekend at the earliest.
Forward Harvey Elliott will make his first appearance since September after an ankle fracture dislocation.
Midfielder Thiago Alcantara was expected to return to training on Friday after a chest infection, having fully recovered from a hip injury which has sidelined him for six weeks.
Cardiff captain Sean Morrison was injured in Wednesday’s Sky Bet Championship win at Barnsley and is set to miss out.
Curtis Nelson and Joe Ralls are also fitness doubts and boss Steve Morrison must reshuffle with four players cup-tied.
Max Watters and loan trio Alfie Doughty, Cody Drameh and Uche Ikpeazu have all played for other clubs in this season’s competition and are unavailable.
Morison has promised to reward several of his youngsters with a starting role at Anfield and Isaak Davies, Joel Bagan, Mark Harris and Rubin Colwill are in line to be promoted.
