{"id":64391,"date":"2025-08-13T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/64391\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:32:08","slug":"legendary-manager-hails-liverpools-great-move-for-giovanni-leoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/64391\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary manager hails Liverpool&#8217;s &#8216;great move&#8217; for Giovanni Leoni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published 3 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>This story has been reproduced from the media. It does not necessarily represent the position of Liverpool Football Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nm5e1u\">Legendary Italian manager Arrigo Sacchi has endorsed Liverpool&#8217;s move for Parma&#8217;s teenage defender Giovanni Leoni and tipped him to become the future of their national team.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Mail Sport reported on Tuesday that the Premier League champions have stepped up their interest in the 18-year-old defender.<\/p>\n<p>Leoni is expected to cost around \u00a335million, with the deal unconnected to Liverpool&#8217;s pursuit of Crystal Palace captain Marc Guehi for a similar fee.<\/p>\n<p>Full story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-14996583\/Legendary-manager-Liverpool-Giovanni-Leoni-transfer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MailOnline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Published 3 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published 3 hours ago This story has been reproduced from the media. It does not necessarily represent the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[607,608,59,596,603,598,609,611,610,134,602,601,597,606,599,604,101,600,56,54,55,605],"class_list":["post-64391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-gb","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64391","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=64391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}