{"id":701654,"date":"2026-07-20T14:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701654\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:03:09","slug":"rumour-mongering-psg-set-60m-bradley-barcola-asking-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701654\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour Mongering: PSG Set \u00a360M Bradley Barcola Asking Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Liverpool have a lot of work left to do this summer in the transfer window now that the World Cup has ended, with a squad that was already thin and unbalanced last season with pace on the wings a particular issue having seen key stars depart this summer\u2014including star winger Mohamed Salah\u2014and little work done to replace them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Bringing in Victor Mu\u00f1oz last month was a good start, but at least one and preferably two more forward signings appear necessary and failing to do so would be seen as an utter failure by sporting director Richard Hughes, who has largely fallen short of what\u2019s needed across his two summers in charge and now plans to pop the parachute and escape to Saudi at the close of the current window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Yan Diomande was meant to be the star replacement, but after briefing club-connected journalists that his was an all but done deal through June it turned out the player was only using Liverpool to drum up interest from Paris Saint-Germain. With Diomande off the table, the 1B target is meant to be PSG\u2019s Bradley Barcola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Now, French broadcasters RMC Sport are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news-live-arsenal-fc-chelsea-man-utd-liverpool-rogers-alvarez-stones-b1284294.html?page=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly claiming<\/a> that PSG would consider a sale for around \u00a360M (\u20ac70M). This will raise eyebrows since previous talk had them seeking closer to \u00a385M (\u20ac100M). It will also raise eyebrows that the French club are said to be starting to actively shop Barcola\u2014including to Liverpool\u2019s historic rivals Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Given the way the market has skyrocketed in England this summer, \u00a360M for Barcola seems almost reasonable, and given PSG\u2019s previous stance that he wasn\u2019t for sale unless Diomande arrived and that it would take a far more significant fee to get him even if that were to happen it\u2019s hard not to be a little bit skeptical of the latest chatter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Regardless, Liverpool very much do need another winger, whether that\u2019s Barcola or a player like Bournemouth\u2019s rising star Brazilian winger Rayan, and with pre-season having already begun last week there is a real need to get a few more signings done in a hurry to avoid new head coach Andoni Iraola being set up for failure before the 2026-27 season even kicks off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have a lot of work left to do this summer in the transfer window now that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,2008,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-701654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-liverpool-transfer-news-rumours","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701654","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=701654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}