Maybe I’m confusing him with someone else.
I thought there was a french based player who moved to a german club e the summer after Klopp joined us. Klopp had tried to get a deal done for that player but we were simply too late in making our move.
I’m tying to piece that together but cannot identify who you’re thinking about but definitely wasnt PEA as Klopp had him at Dortmund for several years before he quit there.
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Dembele perhaps?
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Do you think that we have no interest in Ekitike and Leukeba they are French but playing in Germany ?
That is very possible. He was highly rated when he moved to Dortmund with that move viewed as him taking a sensible intermediate step rather than the big move that was seemingly available for him even then
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The German league is a better standard and so its easier for our guys to assess someone’s quality playing there than it is in France. As we can see from our transfers, the German league is a very common source for us.
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No, no, I meant specifically the players who play in France. Aside from Sakho and Fabinho, I genuinely can’t remember Liverpool being definitely interested in another. @redfanman suggested PEA but I also can’t remember that link being genuine…
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We were definitely strongly linked to Dembele when he was looking to leave Rennes, but again may have been guzumped by Dortmund due to their willingness to move on an inexperienced player with only French league experience than we were.
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Yeah, I remembered wrong and it was Dembele I was actually thinking of (PEA was someone I had wanted us to sign from St. Ettiene but don’t think we were in a position to then)
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Fekir and Lacazette.
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Fekir,Lacazette and the midfielder whose name I cannot remember. When we had a French manager he bought a few French duds Sinama Pongolle,Djimi Traoré,Bruno Cheyrou and Jean michel Ferri and a good player like Djibril Cisse
Thuram?
Yoro is another although I wonder how interested we were in him.
Don’t forget Vlad!!
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No he played for Lyon and he now plays in Saudi league.
We were definitely strongly linked to Nicolas Pepe as well 
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Le Fee? Aouar?
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He was from the Chekia not French .
That’s the one Aouar which means squinty eyed in Arabic I think.
I seem to remember Houllier bless his soul buying about 40 players in his tenure.
To be fair, France is an absolute hotbed of talent. Sadly I think PSG are waking up to that being their route to success rather than trying to build an all star team.
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Boumsong?
We were interested in Malouda I think in the window he went to Chelsea.
Also under Roy… Sylvain Marveaux.
There’s been a few.
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