According to information from one transfer insider, Liverpool have a \u2018genuine\u2019 interest in a potential raid on one of their biggest rivals in the final three weeks of the window.<\/p>\n
The Reds continue to be strongly linked with a big-money move for Bradley Barcola, but while the Paris Saint-Germain winger has reportedly agreed personal terms<\/a> with the Merseyside giants, his club are holding out for a fee of around \u00a3128m (TEAMtalk<\/a>).<\/p>\n If that pursuit ultimately hits a dead end, Richard Hughes may yet turn his attention to an alternative target who\u2019s currently playing in the Premier League.<\/p>\n Liverpool hold \u2018direct talks\u2019 with Iliman Ndiaye\u2019s camp<\/p>\n On Wednesday morning, Mark Brus reported for\u00a0the Daily Briefing<\/a> that Liverpool hold a \u2018genuine\u2019 interest in Everton winger Iliman Ndiaye, with \u2018direct talks\u2019 having been held with the player\u2019s camp over a potential cross-Merseyside transfer.<\/p>\n The 26-year-old isn\u2019t pushing to leave the Hill Dickinson Stadium, although the Toffees are privately ware that the Senegal forward and his representatives have held discussions with other clubs.<\/p>\n One source told the transfer reporter: \u201cLiverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal have all held talks with Ndiaye\u2019s camp. Everton want \u00a375m, which is too high, but it\u2019ll be one to watch because the player is really keen to get a move. <\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s decided against the Saudi option [Al Hilal<\/a>] as he wants to keep playing at the highest level. I highly doubt Everton would sell to Liverpool, and there have been no club-to-club talks yet, but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if the asking price ended up being far higher for them.\u201d<\/p>\n Want more Empire of the Kop coverage? Add us as a\u00a0preferred source on Google<\/a>\u00a0to your favourites list for news you can trust<\/p>\n We\u2019d be shocked if Liverpool sign Ndiaye<\/p>\n This is certainly one of the more surprising transfer rumours we\u2019ve heard this summer, even if Dean Jones claimed back in March<\/a> that Ndiaye was one of the forwards that Liverpool shortlisted as a prospective replacement for Mo Salah.<\/p>\n Aside from the obvious difficulty of persuading Everton to sell to their biggest rivals (it\u2019s happened before, we know, but it\u2019s still a rarity), the 26-year-old hasn\u2019t exactly shot the lights out during his time with the Toffees.<\/p>\n A return of 17 goals in 71 appearances<\/a> for David Moyes\u2019 side doesn\u2019t suggest that he\u2019d radically improve the Reds\u2019 attack, and the less said about his time at Marseille (four goals in 46 games<\/a>), the better.<\/p>\n In truth, Ndiaye would be a climbdown from Barcola if Liverpool were to abandon their pursuit of the PSG winger and turn to the Senegal international instead, and paying \u00a375m would be very hard to justify for the goal returns cited above.<\/p>\n We\u2019d be shocked if the 26-year-old were to swap one Merseyside club for another this month, although his future is likely to remain a major talking point until the summer transfer window shuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to information from one transfer insider, Liverpool have a \u2018genuine\u2019 interest in a potential raid on one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-590940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590940","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=590940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}