Barcelona transfers: Flick 'asks for' key Liverpool star with Man City man on 'radar' after injury blow
La Liga colossuses FC Barcelona have apparently had Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson to a 3-male transfer shortlist obeying Marc-Andre ter Stegen’s injury.
Ter Stegen injured his knee during Sunday’s 5-1 win at Villarreal and undertook clinical procedure on Monday.
Records in Spain claim that there has been a ‘extensive rupture’ and the German will undoubtedly prospective miss out on the rest of 2024/25.
“First team gamer Marc Andre ter Stegen undertook effective clinical procedure this afternoon on a patellar tendon injury in his correct knee, executed by Dr Joan Carles Monllau under the guidance of the FC Barcelona Serviceability provider Corrects at the Hospital de Barcelona,” a club review read.
“He will undoubtedly be inaccessible for conglomeration till he has fully reclaimed.”
Barcelona might signs and manifestations and manifestation emancipate agent Keylor Navas – previously of Real Madrid – as a replacement.
But, Hansi Flick has ‘inspected for’ Liverpool inoculation-stopper Alisson in January via Inaki Pena first in queue to match Ter Stegen till then.
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That is according to records in Spain, whereby it is asserted that the Brazilian international is on a 3-male shortlist via Manchester Metropolitan’s Stefan Ortega and AC Milan’s Mike Maignan after Flick ‘inspected for’ a neoteric ‘keeper.
The report claims that Barcelona ‘will undoubtedly be glancing to signs and manifestations and manifestation a starting goalkeeper’ after being ‘quaked’ by the extent of Ter Stegen’s injury.
Liverpool newly signed Giorgi Mamardashvili from Valencia and this might responsive the door for Alisson to join in 2025, though it is highly unlikely that he will undoubtedly leave Anfield mid-period via Mamardashvili not arriving till the expire of the project.
It is asserted that Alisson ‘would not be overly pricey’ but his wage will undoubtedly ‘call for valid negotiation’.
Ortega, at unchanged time, is much much more prospective to be signed. The German has been on Barcelona’s ‘radar’ for a while and need to he ‘kind for much more prestige’ owning been second selection to Ederson approved that his arrival at Man Metropolitan, an agreement might be ‘facilitated’.
Maignan is genuinely unlikely enacted on Barca’s monetary problems. AC Milan would yearn at least 50 million euros for the France No. 1, the report identifies.
Liverpool ‘strike gold’ via Gravenberch form; Zubimendi that?
At unchanged time, Arsenal legend Ian Wright has praised Liverpool midfielder Ryan Gravenberch for his tenacious prelude to the period.
Gravenberch has been a pivot gamer under neoteric honcho Arne Slot, operating in the No. 6 chore behind Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai.
The Reds were apparently keen on wrapping up Real Sociedad’s Martin Zubimendi to dabble in that placement but the Spaniard chose to keep at his boyhood club.
Wright reckons this might be a commissioning in camouflage via Gravenberch proceeding in Slot’s contraption.
“You might claim that via Zubimendi not going via, they might have actually rediscovered the one for themselves currently,” he asserted.
“Because as shortly as you watch those games, and clearly, we yearn to visit him against the perhaps the peak 3, peak 4, and if he’s posturing in those kind of usefulness, then clearly Liverpool have like struck gold approved that he seems to have whatever. He has obtained unanimously the weakness.”
Chatting last month, head coach Slot asserted that Gravenberch still has a agglomeration to validate.
“I believe he carries in specific idiosyncrasies which we like in that placement,” he asserted.
“But he lone played 3 games in that placement and he did actually nicely against Man United, against Sevilla and against Ipswich.
“Now lone one of them was a arcade that matters in stipulation of a Premier League arcade, so he has a agglomeration to validate in that placement still.
“But (in the) first games he did nicely but, like via unanimously of them, it’s not around the victim, it’s habitually what the team around them do for him to dabble a nice arcade.
“Because if unanimously the other 10 would have been s*** at Ipswich, I wear’t believe Ryan would have been able to dabble a nice arcade.
“He has running probability, so he can preserve on running, he has a wondrous top and he is actually comfy via the ball.
“So he has some weakness that he might dabble in that placement. We have other contingencies in that placement as nicely. Wondrous occasion in the majority of poses.”