{"id":423431,"date":"2026-02-13T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423431\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:40:07","slug":"liverpool-boss-arne-slot-says-luis-diaz-had-to-get-sold-to-fc-bayern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423431\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool boss Arne Slot says Luis D\u00edaz had to get sold to FC Bayern"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Liverpool struggling in their title defense, it begs the question: Should Luis D\u00edaz have been sold to Bayern Munich? Liverpool coach Arne Slot believes that it was the right decision and that other players were deemed more important. \u201cYou always miss good football players,\u201d Slot began (via X account @iMiaSanMia<\/a>). \u201cHe was so important for us last season, but he wasn\u2019t the only one. There were more players that were influential in our results. But I think we have replaced them with very good players as well.<\/p>\n

The Dutchman then went on to say that Bayern\u2019s offer for D\u00edaz was too good to pass up because the reigning Premier League champions had other, more expensive players in sight, implying that the Reds had a forward-thinking strategy. \u201cLuis D\u00edaz is another example of how this club is run\u201d, Slot continued. \u201cIf this club gets, for a 28-year-old, an offer like that, then this club, because it is built on sustainability, chooses to sell a player and we are an exception in the Premier League, especially at the top of the Premier League, for that. But that is why it is also so nice that we are able to achieve the things we have achieved in the last few years with that model. But he is doing very well at Bayern and that is not a surprise to me\u201d. It\u2019s also common knowledge that Liverpool balked at Diaz\u2019s contract demands, was unable to negotiate a deal with him, and let him go. Coupled with his desire to move out, the transfer to Bayern was as good as done.<\/p>\n

D\u00edaz now has 33 goal contributions in 31 matches in all competitions for the Bavarians, stats that most of the current Liverpool attackers can only dream of (looking at you, Florian).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Liverpool struggling in their title defense, it begs the question: Should Luis D\u00edaz have been sold to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[53512,218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-423431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-bayern-munich-transfer-news-and-rumors","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}