Liverpool ‘outbid’ Barcelona to sign Colombian attacking midfielder on ‘five-year contract’
Liverpool have a deal in elbowroom to carry Samuel Martínez to Anfield once he rotates 18 after concurring a tackle Atletico Nacional, according to a decent donor.
Arne Slot’s Liverpool have not yet authenticated their elbowroom in the Premier League top five this period, however the Reds are already planning onward for the summertime season send abode window.
Liverpool’s weighty top priority is to indication a right-winger in the summertime season of 2026, via manager Arne Slot also gazing to carry in a midfielder.
But, it has presently arised that Liverpool have a deal in elbowroom to carry to Anfield a Colombian gem for the long term.
Spanish donor Matteo Moretto has reported that Atletico Nacional striking midfielder Samuel Martinez will noticeably come to be a brand-neoteric player for Liverpool.
Moretto, that has almost 500,000 patriots on X and also works closely via send guru Fabrizio Romano, has claimed that the 17-year-worn will noticeably glide to Liverpool once he rotates 18.
Samuel Martinez is joining Liverpool
Moretto composed on X at 2pm on Could 22: “Samuel Martínez, the young Colombian prospect of Atletico Nacional, will noticeably come to be a brand-neoteric player for Liverpool.
“The commemorations are finalising the documents to chummy the negotiation.
“The deal will noticeably be shut for about one million euros, and also the Colombian bar books % of a future sale.
“When the striking midfielder rotates 18, he will noticeably indication a five-year covenant via Liverpool.
“Liverpool has outbid other weighty European clubs such as Barcelona and also Borussia Dortmund.”
At the extremely same time, Liverpool manager Arne Slot has been chatting onward of the bar’s last Premier League video game of the period versus Brentford this weekend.
Among the questions that Slot was channelled out questions at his pre-match press meeting on Friday was the hurting Instagram post from Mohamed Salah on Liverpool’s messing around motif under the Dutchman this period.
Slot reacted by dicta: “No, I don’t assume it’s that considerable what I feel about it.
“What is considerable is that we qualify for the Winners League [on] Sunday and also I chef up Mo and also unanimously of the rest in the ideal you can perhaps picture way and also the whole staff to be unanimously set for the video game on Sunday.
“That is what discomfiture.
“I was awfully disgruntled after our loss versus [Aston] Escape abode given that a win would noticeably have imparted us credentials for the Winners League.
“And presently there’s one video game to go, which is a important one for us as a bar.”
When channelled out questions about the encourage of Salah’s remarks, Slot defined: “I don’t realise if it had encourage on the team.
“Yet what I’ve seen is that the staff trained actually nicely this week and also we hope to perpetuate actually nicely in the upcoming 2 days so we’re in the ideal you can perhaps picture way intended.
“I assume Mo and also I have both the extremely same exhilaration.
“We want the ideal for this bar, we want the bar to be as successful as you can perhaps picture.
“We were both segment of conferring our fanatics their first league title once more after five years.
“Yet we’re also aware – unanimously of us – that we didn’t carry the extremely same level this period.
“What we want, what he wants, what I want is the bar to be as successful as we were last period.
“That is wherein my weighty emphasis is on presently, given that the video game on Sunday can offer us a actually glorious substructure gaining in next off period.
“That is wherein I, we need to emphasis on.”