{"id":25859,"date":"2025-07-26T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/25859\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:19:08","slug":"luis-diaz-transfer-latest-colombian-left-out-of-liverpool-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/25859\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Diaz transfer latest: Colombian left out of Liverpool friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool manager Arne Slot said Luis Diaz was left out of the friendly defeat against AC Milan because of speculation surrounding a move for the Colombia forward.<\/p>\n

The Premier League champions rejected an opening bid of \u00a358m<\/a> from Bayern Munich earlier this month for Diaz, whose contract expires in the summer of 2027.<\/p>\n

While Slot said Darwin Nunez missed the game against Milan in Hong Kong with an injury, he confirmed Diaz was omitted “due to speculation on his future”.<\/p>\n

Liverpool have signed forwards Florian Wirtz and Hugo Ekitike already this summer and are in pursuit of Newcastle United’s Alexander Isak<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Diaz arrived at Anfield from Porto in a deal worth an initial \u00a337m in January 2022 and he was an integral part of the squad that won the 2024-25 Premier League.<\/p>\n

Liverpool’s record signing Wirtz made his first start for his new club against Milan at a sold-out Kai Tak Stadium.<\/p>\n

Liverpool legend Sir Kenny Dalglish laid a wreath of flowers before kick-off and the players had ‘Diogo J 20’ on their shirts in tribute to their former team-mate Diogo Jota, who died in a car accident<\/a> as he and his brother Andre Silva drove through the Spanish province of Zamora earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The Premier League champions dominated the opening 10 minutes but it was the Italian side who opened the scoring when a counter-attack ended with Rafael Leao smashing past Alisson Becker.<\/p>\n

Dominik Szoboszlai equalised with a fine curling strike into the top corner of Mike Maignan’s goal from the edge of the box.<\/p>\n

England midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek restored Milan’s lead early in the second half as the Reds were again caught short at the back and Noah Okafor made it 3-1 with a brilliant finish beyond Liverpool’s new Georgia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili.<\/p>\n

Cody Gakpo pulled one back in added time with a header from Ibrahima Konate’s pinpoint ball into the box but an awful mix-up between Mamardashvili and Kostas Tsimikas allowed Okafor to net his second.<\/p>\n

Liverpool now travel to Japan and will play Yokohama F. Marinos on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool manager Arne Slot said Luis Diaz was left out of the friendly defeat against AC Milan because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-25859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}