{"id":35164,"date":"2025-08-31T19:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35164\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:55:13","slug":"kostas-tsimikas-leaves-liverpool-for-loan-at-roma-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35164\/","title":{"rendered":"Kostas Tsimikas leaves Liverpool for loan at Roma &#8211; Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a data-ail=\"326583\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/kostas-tsimikas\/\" title=\"Kostas Tsimikas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kostas Tsimikas<\/a> has joined Serie A side AS Roma on a season-long loan, having found himself out of the picture for a starting spot at left-back at Liverpool.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tsimikas made 29 appearances in all competitions in <a data-ail=\"326583\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/arne-slot\/\" title=\"Arne Slot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arne Slot<\/a>\u2018s first campaign at Liverpool \u2013 his best tally in a single season \u2013 but dropped down the pecking order this summer.<\/p>\n<p>With <a data-ail=\"326583\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/milos-kerkez\/\" title=\"Milos Kerkez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Milos Kerkez<\/a> starting every game so far, the decision was made to omit the Greek entirely as interest in a transfer developed.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the likes of <a data-ail=\"326583\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/nottingham-forest\/\" title=\"Nottingham Forest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nottingham Forest<\/a> and Valencia considering moves, Liverpool found themselves short of permanent offers for their No. 21.<\/p>\n<p>Instead an agreement was reached to loan Tsimikas to Roma for the remainder of 2025\/26, with the Italian side covering his wages.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool were hopeful of including an option or obligation to buy as part of the deal but instead it is a straight loan, meaning the situation will be revisited next summer.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/P2025-08-04-Liverpool_Atletic_Bilbao-36-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - Monday, August 4, 2025: Liverpool's Kostas Tsimikas during a pre-season friendly match between Liverpool FC and Athletic Bilbao at Anfield. (Photo by David Rawcliffe\/Propaganda)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden alignnone size-medium wp-image-325020\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>By that point Tsimikas will have two year left on his contract, with another decision to make over a sale bar any major change of circumstances at his parent club.<\/p>\n<p>He becomes the 10th Liverpool player currently out on loan, but that number is expected to increase by Monday\u2019s 7pm transfer deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The likes of <a data-ail=\"326583\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/vitezslav-jaros\/\" title=\"Vitezslav Jaros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vitezslav Jaros<\/a>, <a data-ail=\"326583\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/james-mcconnell\/\" title=\"James McConnell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James McConnell<\/a>, <a data-ail=\"326583\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/lewis-koumas\/\" title=\"Lewis Koumas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lewis Koumas<\/a> and <a data-ail=\"326583\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/luca-stephenson\/\" title=\"Luca Stephenson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luca Stephenson<\/a> have already departed in temporary moves, though Isaac Mabaya\u2019s stint at Wigan is set to be cut short due to injury.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ail=\"326583\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/kaide-gordon\/\" title=\"Kaide Gordon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kaide Gordon<\/a>, <a data-ail=\"326583\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/calvin-ramsay\/\" title=\"Calvin Ramsay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Calvin Ramsay<\/a>, <a data-ail=\"326583\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisanfield.com\/liverpool-fc\/rhys-williams\/\" title=\"Rhys Williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rhys Williams<\/a>, Fabian Mrozek and Oakley Cannonier are others who could leave within the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kostas Tsimikas has joined Serie A side AS Roma on a season-long loan, having found himself out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,560,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-35164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-liverpool-fc","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35164","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=35164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}