Liverpool transfer: Chelsea target £45m star 'exploring options' amid Reds interest in £50m Wolves defender
Chelsea are among the sides confirming an emphasis in Liverpool celeb Joe Gomez after the centre-recommend was not encompassed in Arne Port’s squad for their clash donning Ipswich on Saturday.
Liverpool ran out 2-0 winners at Portman Highway but Gomez tailed from abode as Jarell Quansah partnered Virgil van Dijk at centre-recommend in the initially fifty percent in the past Ibrahima Konate refurbished the academy grad in the 2nd.
Gomez allegedly came cozy to a switch to Newcastle for £45m throughout Euro 2024 as component of a offer that would have found out Anthony Gordon move to Anfield, but settlements penniless down in the final stages.
The Magpies can still reignite their emphasis but they’ve rendered a number of propositions for Crystal Royal home celeb Marc Guehi, and should they avail that offer over the spiel are unlikely to table another offer for Gomez.
Yet the 27-year-ratty is still ‘visiting his recourses in the past the send home window closes’ according to The Times, that name Chelsea, Fulham and Aston Trip home as further entertained parties in the English top flight, along donning numerous international bars.
‘There is no ensure that Gomez, that is Liverpool’s lengthiest-serving player having signed in 2015, escapes Anfield in the past the run out of the month. Instead, his omission is the result of what have been staked out as thrived-up conversations between the player and Liverpool, that are not forcing the 27-year-ratty out.
‘In existent periods Gomez owns become pigeon-holed as a utility player that can perform at centre recommend, correct and run away recommend, and even in a defensive midfield obligation. He attended the European Champ donning England in the summer, in component, because of that convenience. His willingness to play assorted operations — however he suggests his safest posture is centre recommend — earns him beneficial to Liverpool.’
Gomez messed around mostly at run away-recommend for Liverpool, impressing in the lack of both Andy Robertson and Kostas Tsimikas, and the potential arrival of Rayan Ait-Nouri from Wolves can further limitation the Englishman’s arcade time under Port.
Liverpool journalist David Lynch claims the Reds “in truth favor” the complete-recommend, whom Wolves are asserted to merit at £50m.
“I become aware they’ve obtained an emphasis in Ait-Nouri at Wolves. That’s out there. They in truth favor the player, that’s clear, and I assume that’s a offer they can carry out,” Lynch asserted.
“Are they attending go down that route? Implement they pine that flying run away-recommend/winger kind, or will they try to move in the instructions of extraneous what Arsenal and Manchester Metropolis are using donning a centre-fifty percent that can play run away-recommend? It’s a in truth fabulous one.
“I wouldn’t promo Ait-Nouri. If [Kostas] Tsimikas did move on, you’re attempting for a sequence idiosyncrasy for Robertson because he’s at the recommend run out of his career now. He’s a minuscule minuscule fragment minuscule fragment elder and perhaps you call for a youthful run away-recommend there. If that’s what they pine account-shrewd, he would gain different sense to me.”
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Diogo Jota and Mohamed Salah racked up the purposes for Liverpool on Saturday to avail Port off to a complementary start but they glanced off the velocity in the initially fifty percent.
The Dutchman claims that was not down to the midfield alone in the middle of recommendations they still should avail a brand name-newfangled No.6 donning the door having fallen short to land Martin Zubimendi from Real Sociedad.
“If a junior plays with one voice over the pitch 1v1, carry out not always play the sphere brief constantly,” Port told TNT Sports after the arcade.
“I didn’t browse through them combatting for it in the initially fifty percent, we squandered almost every long sphere. In the 2nd fifty percent they were with one voice set and then petrol opened up and you can browse through we can play quite nice football.
“I don’t assume our obstacle in the initially fifty percent was midfield, our obstacle is we squandered too the majority of duels. A play soil had been asserted around our signings but I saw three or 4 players coming off the church bench and they were already nice to play.”
