{"id":51028,"date":"2025-09-08T15:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/51028\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:28:08","slug":"liverpool-transfers-reds-have-agreement-for-first-2026-signing-amid-clear-romano-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/51028\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool transfers: Reds &#8216;have agreement&#8217; for first 2026 signing amid clear Romano update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, Liverpool already \u2018have an agreement\u2019 for their first signing in 2026, while Fabrizio Romano has commented on their \u201cintention\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/liverpool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Liverpool<\/strong> <\/a>had a dream summer transfer window as they secured most of their top targets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/biggest-summer-spenders-2025-transfer-window-football\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>investing around \u00a3415m in a major squad overhaul.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alexander Isak, Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike, Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez were Liverpool\u2019s most notable signings, while they cashed in on Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez and Jarell Quansah to raise funds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/arne-slot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Arne Slot<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s side were dealt a blow on deadline day, though. This came as they missed out on Crystal Palace and England star Marc Guehi at the eleventh hour.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool targeted Guehi for most of the summer window and they reached a \u00a335m agreement with Palace on deadline day, but the deal fell through following the London club\u2019s failure to land a suitable replacement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/florian-wirtz-liverpool-passenger-new-veron-mailbox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florian Wirtz is Liverpool \u2018passenger\u2019 and the new Juan Sebastian Veron<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Still, the door remains open for Guehi to join Liverpool next year as he is in the final year of his current contract.<\/p>\n<p>Romano has claimed that Liverpool\u2019s \u201cintention is to go for Guehi as a free agent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarc Guehi will not sign a new contract with Crystal Palace. You can imagine that the season can change, but as of today, the intention of Liverpool is to go for Guehi as a free agent and not to go for him in the January transfer window,\u201d Romano said on his YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>If something happens in the next months, Liverpool can decide to revisit that decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiverpool are not happy with what happened on Deadline Day. There will be competition from Spain, Italy, Germany and England as well. For sure, there will be many clubs willing to enter the race and tell him that they will pay a bigger wage or signing fee than Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiverpool will be there, but the intention is to go for Guehi in 2026 as a free agent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<br \/>\ud83d\udc49<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-romano-konate-contract-update-no-agreement-pragmatic-approach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Liverpool: Romano reveals Konate contract update amid \u2018no agreement\u2019; \u2018pragmatic\u2019 approach revealed<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-ekitike-reveals-problem-verdict-response-isak-signing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool: Hugo Ekitike reveals \u2018problem\u2019 verdict in clear response to record Alexander Isak signing<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-arsenal-city-kylian-mbappe-shock-pl-title-prediction-crucial-factor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool or Arsenal? Kylian Mbappe drops verdict on PL title race as \u2018crucial factor\u2019 raised<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, a report from Football Insider claims Liverpool \u2018have an agreement\u2019 to sign Guehi in 2026, with former Premier League chief scout Mick Brown, who \u2018remains very well-connected within the game\u2019, claiming that \u201call the details are pretty much done\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Liverpool have an agreement already,\u201d<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/liverpool-have-an-agreement-to-sign-player-in-2026-after-details-are-done\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Brown told Football Insider.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen it happen before, the deal falls through but everything had already been agreed on the players\u2019 side, so they can return to the deal without any issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you come that close to a deal, all the details are pretty much done. It looked like it was a done deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo they know what the player\u2019s asking for, they know he wants to join, it\u2019s just a case of moving forward with the club to bring him in when he\u2019s available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it happens in January or at the end of the season, it\u2019s up to them really.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiverpool will say with only a year left on his contract, they can save \u00a335million and get him for free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if there\u2019s interest from the likes of Real Madrid and Barcelona as have been mentioned, Liverpool are confident he wants to join them. So from their point of view, it\u2019s just a case of making a move again when he\u2019s available.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to reports, Liverpool already \u2018have an agreement\u2019 for their first signing in 2026, while Fabrizio Romano has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,5000,18,5277,13,14,6,794,19,17,11,12,1009,15,16,6013,5,795,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-51028","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-crystal-palace","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-fabrizio-romano","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-home-page","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-liverpool","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-marc-guehi","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-premier-league","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51028","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=51028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}