Liverpool<\/a> shortly after news broke of the club’s hardline stance this week, was unequivocal: the Colombian is not for sale.<\/p>\nThere is also some private puzzlement behind the scenes about Barca’s ability to raise the capital needed to sign Diaz, even if the Reds are open to offers for a player who has two years left on his Anfield contract.<\/p>\n
The player himself has reiterated his happiness in recent weeks, telling Telemundo about his hopes to sit down and discuss a new contract before expressing his contentment to official club channels after lifting the Premier League title.<\/p>\n
There are some at Liverpool who also view Al-Hilal’s failed pursuit of Bruno Fernandes as almost setting the going rate where Diaz is concerned this summer. The Saudi Pro League club wanted to bring the Manchester United star to the Middle East for \u00a3100m only for the Portugal international to publicly shun their advances earlier this week.<\/p>\n
The fee for a player two years Diaz’s senior, for a club who have just endured their most miserable in decades, has, perhaps inadvertently, steeled the Reds’ resolve when it comes to their No.7.<\/p>\n
Al-Nassr, of the Saudi Pro League, are casting admiring glances Diaz’s way. It’s unknown if the Saudi club have held any sort of tentative discussions with Raul Pais da Costa or Carlos Van Strahalen, the player’s representatives, but the Saudi Pro League side are owned, like Al-Hilal, by the nation’s Public Investment Fund.<\/p>\n
So it seems that the market value for Diaz has been set then and while there may be one or two eyebrows raised at that remarkable figure, Liverpool will have reached that valuation in the same way they have tended to with others in recent years.<\/p>\n
The \u00a322m fee they were able to extract for Sepp van den Berg from Brentford last summer, for example, might have seemed on the high side for someone with just four senior appearances in five years at Anfield, all in 2019\/20. However, Bournemouth’s agreement for Dean Huijsen, then of Juventus, earlier that summer helped inform the club’s asking price.<\/p>\n
Huijsen, who has since joined Real Madrid after his \u00a350m release clause was triggered, was brought to the south coast for a fee that rose to \u00a315m after just nine games in Serie A. Van den Berg, meanwhile, had played close to 150 across the Eredivisie, the Bundesliga and the Championship.<\/p>\n
Taylor Harwood-Bellis’s\u00a320m switch from Manchester City to Southampton, meanwhile, also helped the Reds reach a price for their young Dutch defender.<\/p>\n
Anfield officials argued Van den Berg’s experience level, compared to other defenders around the same age who moved that summer, coupled with his potential ceiling made him a centre-half worth in excess of \u00a320m. It was a stance that eventually paid off, quite literally.<\/p>\n
That Liverpool were able to fetch \u00a323million for Rhian Brewster from Sheffield United, despite the striker never having started a Premier League game for Jurgen Klopp’s side, also piqued interest in October 2020.<\/p>\n
The Reds assessed comparative market trends and after 11 goals in 22 games on loan at Swansea City in the Championship, Brewster’s value was determined to be in line with the \u00a328m that took the Championship’s top scorer, Ollie Watkins, from Brentford to Aston Villa that same summer.<\/p>\n
And while there is no hard-and-fast price tag being slapped on Diaz in the same way, the reports around what Saudi clubs were prepared to pay for Fernandes mean a reluctant Liverpool won’t be budging any time soon for the 28-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A look at how Liverpool determine their market value for players and why a failed bid for Bruno…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,763,1596,8902,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-164570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-liverpool-fc","13":"tag-liverpool-fc-transfer-news","14":"tag-luis-diaz","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114639832589540449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Bruno Fernandes during Manchester United’s 2-2 draw with Liverpool at Anfield in January(Image: Alex Livesey – Danehouse\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n