Liverpool are reportedly making strikes behind the scenes so as to add to their already wholesome Dutch contingent at Anfield.
The Netherlands trio of Virgil van Dijk, Ryan Gravenberch and Cody Gakpo had been all key gamers within the Reds’ Premier League title triumph this season, and naturally the crew’s success was masterminded by a Dutchman in Arne Slot.
The aforementioned trio had been already on the membership by the point the 46-year-old took over from Jurgen Klopp final summer season, however the Bergentheim-born tactician seemingly now has eyes on a primary signing from his homeland since taking cost on Merseyside.
Liverpool getting ready first provide for Xavi Simons
Based on sources near Empire of the Kop, Liverpool are getting ready to submit a gap provide of roughly €60m (£51.1m) for Xavi Simons, who they plan to judge as a part of the membership’s technique to bolster their attacking choices.
Slot is assured that the presence of the 22-year-old’s worldwide teammates Van Dijk, Gravenberch and Gakpo might sway the RB Leipzig ahead in direction of becoming a member of the Premier League champions, and such a transfer might turn into extra believable if his present facet fail to qualify for subsequent season’s Champions League.
Nevertheless, there’s a powerful probability that the Reds’ first bid for the Dutch attacker is rejected, because the Bundesliga facet may solely be keen to promote him for a payment within the area of €70m-€80m (£59.6m-£68.1m).
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Simons starred in entrance of Liverpool scouts on Saturday
Liverpool are understood to have had a scouting delegation at RB Leipzig’s 3-3 draw towards Bayern Munich on Saturday (Each day Mail), by which Simons supplied an excellent help for a really jaw-dropping objective from fellow Reds-linked goal Benjamin Sesko.
The Dutchman was his crew’s highest-rated participant by Sofascore metrics, having ended the afternoon with two assists, 5 profitable duels, one shot on track, two key passes and two huge possibilities created. It isn’t for nothing that his former boss Marco Rose hailed him as a ‘difference-maker‘ for his facet.
Regardless of the 22-year-old’s high-quality show towards the Bundesliga champions-elect yesterday, the Crimson Bull-owned outfit are in actual hazard of lacking out on Champions League soccer for subsequent season. They’ve simply two matches remaining this time period and will discover themselves 4 factors off the highest 4 if Freiburg defeat Bayer Leverkusen on Sunday.
If RB Leipzig fail to safe a seat at Europe’s prime desk or 2025/26, they might be pressured to decrease their asking worth for Simons, notably if he had been to push for an exit to a membership comparable to Liverpool who’d be capable to sate his urge for food in that regard. Fabrizio Romano has already indicated {that a} summer season switch for the Dutchman is a ‘concrete chance’.
May the Netherlands worldwide be the prolific quantity 10 for which Jamie Carragher has referred to as at Anfield? A return of 10 objectives and eight assists this season doesn’t recommend that he’d be a game-changer for the Reds in that respect, however it appears that evidently Anfield chiefs are ready to check the waters with Zsolt Lőw’s facet.
Let’s see how the Bundesliga membership reply to any future strategy from Merseyside.
