{"id":427850,"date":"2026-02-16T00:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/427850\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:41:14","slug":"yan-diomande-responds-to-claims-liverpool-are-his-dream-club-and-addresses-bayern-munich-transfer-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/427850\/","title":{"rendered":"Yan Diomande responds to claims Liverpool are his &#8216;dream club&#8217; and addresses Bayern Munich transfer talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diomande has scored seven goals and provided an additional four assists in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/bundesliga\/6by3h89i2eykc341oz7lv1ddd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bundesliga<\/a> this season, and has completed 68 dribbles, more than any other player in Germany&#8217;s top tier, and that form attracted interest from Premier League sides Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham last month.<\/p>\n<p>Yet despite being aware of top-tier interest, Diomande has admitted he is not trying to think too far ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m trying to stay concentrated and listen to the coaching staff and to play my own game. People can see everything is going well, so I&#8217;m not gonna stop,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/lists\/from-upsl-to-the-champions-league-yan-diomande-dominated-america-as-a-teenager-and-now-he-s-one-of-europe-s-hottest-prospects\/blt1eefcc9417c33c71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Diomande told GOAL earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My friends try to send it to me, but I try to stay focused and calm. For me, it was gonna take like, two or three years. I\u2019m working hard as well, and I&#8217;m happy, like everything happens so quickly, and I hope to keep going until the season ends.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diomande has scored seven goals and provided an additional four assists in the Bundesliga this season, and has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1766,59,708,20832,101,568,56,54,55,156843],"class_list":["post-427850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bayern-munich","tag-gb","tag-liverpool","tag-rb-leipzig","tag-sports","tag-transfers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-y-diomande"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427850","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=427850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}