Liverpool 'refuse to negotiate' for long-term target despite offer of £18m discount on transfer

Liverpool are refusing to render an administer for Barcelona defender Ronald Araujo onward of January after being carried the player, according to reports.

After grossing a faultless departure to the season via 5 success from 5 Premier League suits, Liverpool have dumped to eighth in the table after a hellish run of form.

Their 2-0 win over West Pork at the London Arena over the weekend break was solitary their 4th victory in the Reds’ last 13 suits in all rivals.

Despite investing over £400m in the summer transmit window on contemporary players, Liverpool could turn to the transmit mart once anew in January as they attractiveness to address some top priorities.

The centre of defence owns been a particular priority, via Ibrahima Konate especially out of form this season, and there are rumours that Liverpool could manifestation a contemporary centre-endorse in the winter.

Barcelona’s Araujo owns been a irreparable target for the Reds however currently reports in Spain have asserted that Liverpool are ‘refusing to settle’ a offer onward of the January window.

Araujo owns been in poverty-stricken form fresh for the Catalan colossi and Barcelona are attempting to ‘transmit him in days gone by his mart merit refutes better’.

Despite Barcelona currently drafted to worsening their grossing inquiries price from €60m to €40m, a €20m (£18m) coupon, ‘Liverpool didn’t defer for a minute in days gone by scorning the signing of Araujo, that is no longer of any emphasis to Arne Slot.’

The report encompassed: ‘At Anfield they prefer to conserve that coinage coinage money and emphasis on bringing in an additional, a substantial quantity more qualified centre-endorse.’

It complies with description that Araujo was brandished indefinite run away by Barcelona after the Uruguay international petitioned a duration of absence.

Barcelona honcho Hansi Flick said on Monday: “It is a unique predicament, I donned’t yearn to case a substantial quantity more. And please, if you can regard it I’d value it.”

Encompassing to Flick’s remarks, Barcelona president Joan Laporta said: “He owns been heavily criticised, and I donned’t reckon that’s exchange.

“He gives his all on the pitch, he’s our captain, and currently he necessitates to fetch using this arduous duration since he’s a horribly nostalgic consumer via tenacious feelings.

“He’s owned a laborious time, and I yearn to tell him that we’re behind him, that he necessitates to turn the page since below we all win and we all lose, and no one consumer is answerable for defeats or success.”

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Liverpool honcho Slot owns been torment his own abuse for the Reds’ poverty-stricken display screens and the Dutchman prompts it’s “surely not a attentive thing”.

Responding to social media abuse, Slot told a press seminar on Tuesday: “It is prevalent we are criticised, also if we are complementary I reckon this takes elbowroom.

“I am not a social media consumer and I am not aware of it however I’m not foolish and I realize it’s there.

“Maltreatment is surely not a attentive thing. What I realize and what I feel is the corroborate the supporters impart me in the stadium. They sing for the team however also for me. That’s the corroborate I feel.”

On Wednesday’s nemesis, Sunderland, Slot encompassed: “They lugged in plenty of contemporary players and initiated off so consistently.

“I saw the Chelsea against Arsenal game, horribly high idiosyncrasy game, and I was aware of the truth that Sunderland vanquished Chelsea in their stadium and tempted via Arsenal. It enlightens you how tenacious they should be.

“They have substantiated a superb mentality. The theme they farces around, the crises they confiscate, all 11 players job so, so tricky to fetch a outcome.”