Thiago might be going back to Barca to join Flick’s staff, as he did before he had to return to the UK for a year. Not sure if that’s the plan.
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He probably will, but Kuyt is being considered.
Former Liverpool forward Dirk Kuyt, 44, is among those being considered as Reds boss Arne Slot’s new assistant at Anfield. (Liverpool Echo)
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A new rumor links Liverpool with RB Leipzig centerback star Castello Lukeba. RB Leipzig missed out on European football and his contract has a 74m release clause. Not sure if I believe it but maybe if Quansah is sold, this could open the door for Lukeba incoming?
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While we will most probably look to buy a defender (more so if a move for Quansah is sanctioned) , I don’t believe we will be looking to spend that much.
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Liverpool have identified winger Maghnes Akliouche as a key transfer target this summer. Monaco have agreed to drop his asking price to €60M. (Source: @lequipe)
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We should have got him a few years ago at the same time as Dembele.
We lost that chance. Football is full of those what ifs
We let Cherki go to Shitty but I know we will wait for his teammate Akliouche until he will cost 10 times more but in his case he is very good but he needs filling up a bit. He is the same build as Ekitike. They maybe are looking at him because Frankfurt are asking a bit too much for him but Chelski will be happy to pay any price just to gazump Liverpool again.
Chelsea can gazump us as much as they like. They’ll still win fuck all.
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He is the 3rd Monaco player we’ve been linked to now.
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Not that Liverpool have done much shopping in France since Klopp’s arrival but I’m genuinely interested to know whether the club held genuine interest in France-based players. The links are there every year from the usual suspects but I never get the impression that any of them are real.
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We tried signing PEA when he was leaving Saint Ettiene…
Did FSG even own us then?
It is an interesting observation given how much talent works its way through the French league that, I’m pretty sure the only player we bought directly from France in the Klopp era was Fabs. I think there is probably something there to do with the importance we put on “confidence” in our assessment. It probably just takes too many games at that comparatively low level of competition for our transfer guys to have the confidence to go ahead with a move, and given the interest in that market other clubs will have moved more often than not by the time we’ve moved beyond monitoring. It is maybe relevant that France was a step back for Fabs and so maybe had less to prove in that league to our stats guys than a kid coming up through the French ranks.
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Interesting piece from the BBC on what kind of spending power PL clubs will have this summer whilst staying within PSR.
By their calculations £200m isn’t without possibility. That’s before sales where I could feasible see us generating £100m-£150m with fees for Trent, Kelleher and possibly Elliott/Quansah/Gomez all being banked as pure profit.
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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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