Once more, Liverpool is being connected to a forward transfer who may eventually take Mohamed Salah’s place. PSV has acknowledged that a sale is quite likely.
Liverpool has a history of making unexpected transfers and moves in the transfer market. Few would have predicted that the Reds would make a play for Wataru Endō, the Stuttgart captain at the time, since they failed to close a deal for Moisés Caicedo or Roméo Lavia, for example.
And that is just one instance of how, in the past year or two, Liverpool has made it a practice to sign players that nobody would have predicted. Similar to this, Liverpool chose to spend large sums of money on players like Darwin Núñez and Cody Gakpo last season despite the club’s supporters’ cries for midfield reinforcements. Could the Reds pull off another surprise, though, even though there don’t seem to be any greater priorities elsewhere?
ItalianPrior to the January transfer window, reporter Rudy Galetti claimed that Liverpool was one of two Premier League teams who’strongly value’ PSV Eindhoven’s Johan Bakayoko. The Reds can make good use of the relationship they already have with them after dealing with them with the signing of Gakpo.
According to Patrick Berger of Sky Germany, Bakayoko is a “top target” for Liverpool and other major teams coming up to the summer, as per X/Twitter. Claimed to fetch between $54 million (£43 million/€50 million) and $65 million (£51 million/€60 million), the winger is reportedly coveted by Manchester City, Chelsea, Borussia Dortmund, and PSG.
It was suggested in January that Liverpool could need to move more quickly because there was reportedly a race forming. In reality, with Tottenham ‘searching for a new winger’ and Bakayoko surfacing as one of the targets, it might have had to have been a Luis Díaz repeat instead of Gakpo. Although he didn’t move at the time, he most certainly will in the summer.
