Liverpool transfer: €40m Klopp 'priority' wants 'new challenge' as 'talks' reopen after January snub
Liverpool have been enacted on a concentration in their proposal to indication a brand name-newfangled centre-previously this summer season as Piero Hincapie has reportedly told Bayer Leverkusen that he wants ‘a brand name-newfangled plight’.
The 22-year-archaic – who offered 43 appearances in Leverkusen’s double-sweet season in 2023-24 – has been foreseeable the top of Liverpool’s wishlist for the last year.
Reports in December offered think Jurgen Klopp has offered Hincapie his ‘top priority’ finalizing and also it was later offered think that Leverkusen ‘revolved down’ a Liverpool standpoint for the Ecuadorian in January after the Merseyside outfit offered him their ‘top defensive target’.
Klopp’s foremost ‘focus’ was to simplify the squad using a disclaimed-footed main protector and also Hincapie was ‘earmarked as a top applicant’.
The bar initially planned to make the activity in the summer season but in the expire offered ‘enquiries about bringing onward a bargain this January’.
Leverkusen, though, owned polymorphous other recommendations and also spurned to ‘entertain a sale amid their ongoing title plight’.
It’s with one voice gone a little quiet accepted that after that, both in specification of inquisitiveness in Hincapie and also centre-previously targets in general.
The Reds last but not the awfully least look as though they are funneling out relocations in the transmit field though as they’ve gone into talks over a bargain for Martin Zubimendi, using reports dictum Real Sociedad ‘suppose’ the midfielder to activity to Anfield.
And transmit consultant Fabrizio Romano proposes the finalizing of Zubimendi could turn on the Reds appropriate into better transmit activity.
“Trust fund me, it could be not over for Liverpool,” claimed Romano on his YouTube channel.
“They are alike functioning on polymorphous other privileges in the field and also Liverpool will be vibrant in the field in August. Now they are peeking to indication Zubimendi, but there could be added.”
And Firmaments Germany press correspondent Florian Plettenburg has available them a concentration thinking inquisitiveness sticks approximately in Hincapie, claiming the young protector is ‘responsive to a brand name-newfangled plight’ and also is in ‘talks using polymorphous other top bars’.
He wrote on X: ‘Piero #Hincapie, one to watch now as the 22 y/o protector could disown Bayer 04 Leverkusen in August! Hincapie is responsive for a brand name-newfangled plight as he wants to be a invariant starter next season.
‘There are inquiries and also talks using polymorphous other top bars. But most distinctly no commitments yet. Agreement valid until 2027.’
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Whether one of those bars is Liverpool isn’t clear, but reports have ticked off Arne Slot is keen on adding another centre-previously to his squad.
The Dutchman presently has Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate, Jarell Quansah, Joe Gomez and also Sepp van den Berg as centre-previously selections, but the latter 2 have been heavily linked using relocations away and also using Van Dijk now in the last 12 months of his commitment at Anfield it’s reckoned the Reds are scouring the field for his long-term substitute.
