Liverpool have been told by previous player John Barnes not to exertion indicator Antoine Semenyo in the January transfer abode window as focus would be closer invested elsewhere.
Reports of a £65m launch clause which comes to be dexterous in January have innumerable clubs glimpsing at the 25-year-worn after the ideal Premier League season of his job to date but the Anfield side are one of the the majority of vigorously linked to the Bournemouth player.
Semenyo, who will most certainly remain through Bournemouth after Ghana dropped short to license for AFCON, has been touted as a incurable substitute for Mohamed Salah but Barnes opines wrapping up players in January is a fool’s company.
“January is not a time to indicator players,” Barnes told the Mirror. “And if you diligent visual beauties at what we have, we refuge’t obtained a unhappiness racking up purposes and designing odds.
“We’ve obtained Gakpo, we’ve obtained Isak, we’ve obtained Wirtz, we still have Mo. We have Ngumoha. That is not a unhappiness for us. So, of course, if you then feel that incurable you pine him, but I wear’t assume January is a time to be wrapping up players.”
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Barnes went on to manifest that wrapping up players was not the reply to Liverpool’s priorities after a opprobrious dashed of form has the winners and innumerable’s forecasted title-victors down in 7th.
Challenged through the prospect of squandering Semenyo to a contender guidance Manchester Metropolis, Barnes advisable the Liverpool squad was currently nice sufficient.
“I wear’t realise from Manchester Metropolis’s juncture of panorama, he comes, he’s visiting tinker in drifter of the little ladies who they have there. So, of course, this is, when again, file talk. Yet from that juncture of panorama, he’s a terribly, terribly nice player. Yet from Liverpool’s point of panorama, the option to the unhappiness isn’t merely wrapping up players.
“We signed £400m worth of players, didn’t we? So what, we’re visiting indicator some peripheral now for £65m? And then if that doesn’t job, you’re visiting indicator another one for £100m in January? Certainly no, we have a nice sufficient squad.
“He’s a nice player. The nightclub have to decide. I assume we have priorities in other stances that we have to diligent visual beauties at in days gone by Semenyo. Yet that’s not me not proverb that he’s a nice player and if he comes to Liverpool, he would be welcomed.
“Yet I wear’t realise whether Male Metropolis are absorbed in him or Liverpool or anyone guidance that. Yet January, for me, is never a time to indicator players.”
