Liverpool may nonetheless land former prime goal Aurelien Tchouameni this summer time, with Jurgen Klopp tipped to ‘resurrect his curiosity’ within the Frenchman ought to Actual Madrid be open to a bid.
This comes courtesy of an replace from David Maddock on the Mirror following the disappointing u-turn in the Reds’ pursuit of Jude Bellingham.
Simply whether or not Los Blancos will sanction such a deal stays to be seen, after all, given the rarity of the event during which the Spaniards are genuinely ready to launch real high quality to a direct European rival.
That being mentioned, it’s value noting that the participant’s minutes have been removed from constant for the reason that 3-1 win over Barcelona in La Liga, with solely two rounds of 90-minute outings recorded.
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It comes with a planet-mashing, asteroid-sized, large ol’ ‘IF’, as Maddock has rightly famous, nevertheless it’s understood we’d be anticipated to fork out £90m to prise Tchouameni away from the Bernabeu, IF Madrid’s hierarchy okay the deal.
That does increase an extra query in our eyes after all as to how we may justify spending such an enormous amount of cash on one signing if we’re not ready to spend roughly an additional £40m on a generational expertise in Bellingham.
It’s such an unlikelihood that we’ll be allowed to deliver the previous midfielder to Anfield that we could by no means be able to actively take into account it, after all, although it’s clear our recruitment group have to construct a brand new plan and stick with it following a cock-up of titanic proportions forward of the window.