{"id":612160,"date":"2026-09-02T10:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612160\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:52:16","slug":"liverpool-made-deadline-day-phone-call-to-monaco-over-camara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612160\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool made deadline day phone call to Monaco over Camara"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool reportedly had a part to play in one of the most dramatic stories of transfer deadline day as ar rival Premier League club have been left fuming.<\/p>\n

There wasn\u2019t exactly a flurry of activity at Anfield on Tuesday, with the only signing being that of Belgian goalkeeper Lucca Brughmans<\/a>, who\u2019ll remain with Genk on loan this season. There were a handful of late loan exits (including Harvey Elliott to Valencia), while Stefan Bajcetic joined Celta Vigo on a permanent deal.<\/p>\n

The Reds didn\u2019t make any midfield additions on deadline day, but there\u2019s one such player they seemingly have in mind for a future transfer.<\/p>\n

Liverpool involved in Lamine Camara deadline day drama<\/p>\n

One of the big soap operas yesterday involved Lamine Camara, for whom Chelsea had an initial \u00a338.5 bid rejected before later agreeing a \u00a347m deal<\/a> for the Monaco midfielder, who was given permission to complete a medical.<\/p>\n

However, after then agreeing to sell Folarin Balogun to Everton (a move which later collapsed), the Ligue 1 club backed out of the deal to sell the Senegal international, which left Stamford Bridge chiefs raging (Sky Sports<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Reports from\u00a0talkSPORT<\/a> have claimed that Liverpool made a phone call to Monaco on Tuesday to ask them to delay the sale of Camara, before Les Monegasques later pulled the plug.<\/p>\n

The Reds hadn\u2019t intended to sign the 22-year-old on deadline day but did signal their intention to the player and his club that they could come back in for him next year if he didn\u2019t join Chelsea.<\/p>\n

\"Lamine(Photo by Jan Kruger\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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Liverpool could\u2019ve done with signing Camara straight away<\/p>\n

The cold truth is that Liverpool could\u2019ve done with signing Camara straight away, given their much-discussed defensive midfield issues and a reduction in bodies in the middle of the park since the start of the summer.<\/p>\n

Instead, the onus is left on Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai to provide that blanket of security in the middle third, an aspect in which none of them specialise as all three are more forward-minded.<\/p>\n

With the transfer window now shut, Andoni Iraola is tasked with coaching a more safety-first mindset into that trio if the Reds are to stop giving away goals by being played through their midfield with ridiculous ease.<\/p>\n

By the time Liverpool are next able to sign Camara in January, that weakness in the side mightn\u2019t have been solved \u2013 if anything, it could be exacerbated, with our season suffering as a result.<\/p>\n

The collapse of his move to Chelsea at least leaves the door open for the Merseysiders to come back in for him in 2027. We just hope that doesn\u2019t come too late for the sake of the Reds\u2019 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool reportedly had a part to play in one of the most dramatic stories of transfer deadline day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-612160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612160","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=612160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}