Liverpool 'extremely keen' on £67.4m PSG star as report reveals Man Utd 'veto' ahead of 2025 transfer
Liverpool were ‘exceptionally keen’ on wrapping up Xavi Simons this summer season via the Dutchman placement his sights on a deed to the Premier League in 2025.
The Reds owned a quiet summer season, touchdown Federico Chiesa from Juventus while also consenting a bargain in mandate via Valencia to lug Giorgi Mamardashvili to Anfield in 2025.
Their top target was Martin Zubimendi yet having encouraged his £51m Liverpool then dropped short to urge the 25-year-wear to vacate his boyhood club.
They can nicely have auxiliary serendipity in January if a neoteric record in Spain is anything to go by, and they will possibly also probably be buttressing an eye on Simons having already substantiated attention in the Netherlands playmaker.
Simons has dabbled simply 11 senior galleries for PSG yet was funnily thrilling on finance at RB Leipzig last period and matched to the Bundesliga titans this term despite widespread attention in his agencies from opposite other bars this summer season.
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Bild reporter Yvonne Gabriel has now disclosed that Simons wants a deed to the Premier League, via PSG distressed to sell the playmaker next off year, and prepares for Liverpool to be in the running for the 21-year-wear having been “exceptionally keen” in the summer season.
Gabriel briefed the FC Bayern Insider podcast: “PSG would favor to sell him next off year, yet Xavi brows through himself at an also bigger club.
“His price tag, which is already rumored to be over €80m (£67.4m, $89.4m), is utopian for Leipzig. Through amounts favor that, however, the Premier League understandably comes proper into dabble, Xavi’s dream destination, as they say, that’s why he took on a neoteric consultant a year back, the Englishman Darren Dyne.
“It’s fair to say that the entirety league has long owned Xavi on its radar. Liverpool were also exceptionally keen on him this summer season, there is a nice relationship to consultant Arne Connector.”
Gabriel has also spoken out on PSG’s judgment to make it possible for Simons to stick about at Leipzig for another year after he got 10 purposes and 15 help throughout 43 visual elegances last term.
“At RB Leipzig they are understandably satisfied that Xavi Simons is staying a year longer. The honcho’ great hope is that his brutal strategy of theorizing will possibly be sent to the entire team and at perfect lead them to titles,” Gabriel claimed previously this month.
“Either strategy, it is already legible that the opportunities of Xavi staying at Leipzig beyond this period are exceptionally, exceptionally slim.”
As nicely as Liverpool, Gabriel cases Male Utd gazed at Simons over the summer season, while he can also be an substitute for Manchester Municipal if Kevin De Bruyne dropped abandons.
“Xavi banned the bargain [from Manchester United] and was classified to surf through Leipzig whereby he saw more explained innovation philosophies
“Of course, Male Municipal, whereby Kevin de Bruyne’s contract expires in 2025, have to also be on his radar.”