Liverpool have signed Victor Mu\u00f1oz but with Mohamed Salah departing, Hugo Ekitike out until 2027, and the club having failed to properly replace Luis Diaz after he was sold last season there is a clear need to more and for the past month at least it has seemed clear that more would by Yan Diomande.<\/p>\n
Following news that RB Leipzig\u2019s Ivorian star had snubbed the Reds in favour of Paris Saint-Germain, though, we know it won\u2019t be him. The likes of K\u00f6ln\u2019s Said El Mala, Lille\u2019s Matias Fernandez-Pardo, and Brighton\u2019s Yankuba Minteh have all been put forward as possible alternates, but Paris Saint-Germain\u2019s Bradley Barcola is the name that will draw the most attention.<\/p>\n
On that front, shortly following news that Diomande\u2019s choice was PSG over Liverpool, French sources floated the idea that Barcola\u2019s future could be in doubt<\/a>\u2014something that was always expected should the French club manage to sign Diomande, potentially squeezing him out.<\/p>\n Now, the likes of TalkSport\u2019s Alex Crook<\/a> and transfer rumour clearing house Fabrizio Romano<\/a> are bringing up the Reds in connection to him while making meaningful noises both about Barcola\u2019s desire not to end up buried at PSG and Liverpool\u2019s interest in the player which goes back to at least last summer.<\/p>\n In addition to Barcola, PSG also have Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9 already on the books. Three star wingers for two positions might be workable. Four almost certainly means one needs to go, and with Barcola down to two years on his contract and resistant to negotiating a new one he certainly seems the off man out.<\/p>\n Liverpool have also been tentatively linked with Bournemouth\u2019s Rayan, though so far at least those links appear to be more to do with the wishing of fans and the rumour mongers putting two and two together to link a rising star winger who thrived under Andoni Iraola than they do to solid sourcing.<\/p>\n Hopefully, whoever it is that Liverpool go for next, they do a better job closing the deal than they managed with Diomande, who has been presented as something of a lock to eventually sign for Liverpool for much of the past month by most of the club\u2019s connected journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have signed Victor Mu\u00f1oz but with Mohamed Salah departing, Hugo Ekitike out until 2027, and the club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[10599,403,99],"class_list":["post-732119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-liverpool-transfer-news-rumours","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}