{"id":289179,"date":"2026-01-17T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/289179\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T12:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:03:12","slug":"liverpool-transfer-news-why-reds-did-not-hijack-man-citys-marc-guehi-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/289179\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool transfer news: Why Reds did not hijack Man City’s Marc Guehi move"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool<\/a> reportedly made no attempt to sign Marc Guehi<\/a>, who is close to joining Manchester City<\/a>, in the January transfer window.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Citizens have been one of the several clubs credited with an interest in Guehi, but they accelerated their efforts to sign him this month following a defensive crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pep Guardiola’s side are without Josko Gvardiol, Ruben Dias and John Stones due to injuries, and as a result, they have decided to move for the Crystal Palace<\/a> defender now rather than wait until next summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Guehi has a contract at Selhurst Park until the end of the season, and Palace have agreed to cash in on him after City made a tempting offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It has been reported that Man City have\u00a0agreed a deal in principle<\/strong><\/a> with the Eagles to sign the 25-year-old for a cut-price \u00a320m, plus add-ons that could take the total package towards \u00a330m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why Liverpool did not move for Marc Guehi\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Reds were close to signing Guehi last summer, and they had an initial \u00a335m deal agreed on deadline day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The move collapsed in the eleventh hour after Palace failed to sign a replacement, but Liverpool have remained keen on the defender.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 2024-25 Premier League champions were willing to put together an offer in the summer for the England international, when he was expected to attract a host of suitors, including Bayern Munich.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to a report from the Liverpool Echo<\/a>, the Reds do not consider signing Guehi this month as a market opportunity, compared to last September or next summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As a result, Liverpool are unlikely to change their stance by submitting a fresh offer to hijack City’s move.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Have Liverpool made the right decision?\u00a0
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\u00a9 Imago \/ Sportsphoto<\/p>\n

Guehi\u00a0has reportedly verbally agreed terms on a five-and-a-half-year contract at Man City and will become one of the club\u2019s top 10 earners, receiving a salary worth around \u00a3300,000 per week.<\/p>\n

If finances were to be considered, Liverpool would probably never have offered him that package.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Liverpool have taken a big risk by not signing a new defender this month and by keeping faith in Joe Gomez, who has struggled to stay fit in recent years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With Giovanni Leoni<\/a> out for the rest of the season with an ACL injury, and Ibrahima Konate<\/a> likely to leave for free next summer, Liverpool could be in big trouble if any of the existing defenders get injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool reportedly made no attempt to sign Marc Guehi, who is close to joining Manchester City, in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,2529,18,2531,13,14,22,2524,2527,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,2530,2528,795,2525,119,2533,2532,2526,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-289179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-epl","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-golf","18":"tag-headlines","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-latest-news","22":"tag-latestnews","23":"tag-main-news","24":"tag-mainnews","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-nfl","27":"tag-olympics","28":"tag-premier-league","29":"tag-rugby","30":"tag-sport","31":"tag-sports-mole","32":"tag-teams","33":"tag-tennis","34":"tag-top-stories","35":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115910344951794185","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}