{"id":496184,"date":"2026-06-12T14:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/496184\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:47:11","slug":"liverpool-fsg-respond-after-bayern-munich-knock-on-the-door-for-main-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/496184\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool: FSG respond after Bayern Munich \u2018knock on the door\u2019 for &#8216;main target&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool have made it clear to Bayern Munich that they will not sell Rio Ngumoha in the summer transfer window, according to a German source.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, it emerged that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-ornstein-reveals-bayern-munich-surprise-move-sign-reds-star-agreement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayern want(ed) to sign Ngumoha<\/a> this summer and were in contact for the England international winger.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic journalist David Ornstein reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/bayern-munich\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayern<\/a> manager Vincent Kompany personally wants to sign the teenager.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern want to sign a new left-winger and have made Ngumoha \u2018their main target\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Germany\u00a0journalist\u00a0Florian Plettenberg even claimed that Ngumoha had reached a full verbal agreement with Bayern.<\/p>\n<p>Plettenberg wrote on\u00a0X\u00a0at 5:11pm on June 5: \u201cEXCLUSIVE DETAILS | Rio Ngumoha was the secret candidate FC Bayern had been negotiating with for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/darwin-nunez-wants-to-return-to-liverpool-from-al-hilal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a346m World Cup striker \u2018awaiting news\u2019 from Liverpool as Jorge Mendes gets involved<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBayern had reached a full verbal agreement with Ngumoha and his camp on Tuesday, 26 May. #LFC<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolute priority as a backup to Luis D\u00edaz alongside the pursuit of Anthony Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the deal collapsed yesterday, Thursday, for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt remains to be seen whether club-to-club agreements can be reached for Brown\/Saibari.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVincent Kompany approved the Ngumoha deal after personal talks with the 17 y\/o\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/liverpool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool\u00a0<\/a>gem. @SkySportDE\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/diomande-for-salah-next-ranking-the-last-10-replacements-for-premier-league-legends\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Diomande for Salah next: Ranking the last 10 replacements for Premier League legends<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transfer guru Fabrizio Romano subsequently reported that Liverpool have no plans to sell Ngumoha.<\/p>\n<p>Romano wrote on\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/2062950392044912775\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>\u00a0at 6:31pm on June 5: \u201cLiverpool stance on Rio Ngumoha, not just today but for months: untouchable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeen as crucial part of the project and no chance for his exit, #LFC view is clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rio Ngumoha from Liverpool to Bayern Munich \u2018won\u2019t happen\u2019<\/p>\n<p>While it has now been well-established that Liverpool will not sell the 17-year-old winger this summer, German journalist Christian Falk has revealed how the Reds reacted when Bayern came knocking for the England international winger.<\/p>\n<p>Falk has written on his website, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/cfbayerninsider.com\/2026\/06\/the-bayern-insider-karl-transfer-stance-revealed-as-olise-and-ngumoha-decisions-made\/\" target=\"_blank\">CFBayernInsider<\/a>: \u201cIt is TRUE: Bayern Munich were concretely interested in Rio Ngumoha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were rumours that his brother, who is involved in his career around transfers, was at S\u00e4bener Stra\u00dfe for talks and signalled that the winger would be interested in going to Bayern Munich, and it would be no issue in sorting out contract details and the salary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFC Bayern had a very clear signal when they knocked on the door at Liverpool that there would be no time or reason for talks; there would be no negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re so convinced about the player and his potential that they signalled he wouldn\u2019t be sold. It won\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were frustrations among some fans last season that then Liverpool manager Arne Slot did not use Ngumoha much.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager started just five times in the Premier League last season and played only 63 minutes in the Champions.<\/p>\n<p>What Arne Slot said about Rio Ngumoha<\/p>\n<p>Slot, though, did rate Ngumoha highly and said about him in April after the winger scored against Fulham, as quoted in ESPN: \u201cHe\u2019s not only the long-term future but also the near future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said one or two months ago his playing time would increase because he\u2019s got stronger and stronger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s shown that it wasn\u2019t only a nice trick but there was more and more end product to what he did, and more power, which is needed if you play against the best defenders in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone is surprised he scored his first [Anfield] goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slot, who has been replaced by Andoni Iraola as the Liverpool head coach, noted the rare quality that Ngumoha has.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman enthused: \u201cHe has such a special quality you don\u2019t see very often in football anymore, dominating the one-v-one situations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what he did when he scored his goal, making the ball free by twisting and turning and then hitting it in like a Mo Salah finish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pleasing to see that he did what we know makes him special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-welcome-andoni-iraola-with-60m-boost-and-all-new-squad-look\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool welcome Andoni Iraola with \u00a360m boost and all-new squad look<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have made it clear to Bayern Munich that they will not sell Rio Ngumoha in the summer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28469,914,1100,61,60,1101,43,1102,32541,112],"class_list":["post-496184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bayern-munich","tag-front-page","tag-home-page","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liverpool","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-rio-ngumoha","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}