{"id":176728,"date":"2025-06-11T21:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T21:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/176728\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T21:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T21:51:10","slug":"transfer-news-live-wirtz-set-for-liverpool-medical-city-announce-reijnders-de-bruyne-on-verge-of-joining-next-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/176728\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news LIVE: Wirtz set for Liverpool MEDICAL, City ANNOUNCE Reijnders, De Bruyne on verge of joining next club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kop in for PSG ace Barcola<\/p>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Liverpool are set to swoop for Paris Saint-Germain star Bradley Barcola \u2014 pushing their summer spending over \u00a3300MILLION, writes DAN KING.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League champs intend to spend big on another attacker even after they complete a British-transfer record\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/35266664\/liverpool-asking-price-florian-wirtz-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a3127million deal for Bayer Leverkusen\u2019s Florian Wirtz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"960\" width=\"844\" class=\"alignnone size-thesun-article-image wp-image-35367990\" data-credit=\"\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image_006083.png\" data-caption=\"\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image_006083.png\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And they are prepared to battle\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/football\/team\/1249869\/bayern-munich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayern Munich<\/a>\u00a0for \u00a3100m-rated winger Barcola, 22.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/football\/team\/1196659\/liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a>\u00a0have also not given up all hope of prising Alexander Isak away from Newcastle. Kop chiefs would still love 23-goal Isak to lead their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/35146292\/transfer-news-live-liverpool-chelsea-wirtz-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new-look frontline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But if the Toon insist on a fee of around \u00a3150m for the 25-year-old Sweden international, Liverpool will bow out and look for an alternative.<\/p>\n<p>And Barcola has emerged as a spectacular Plan B after doubts emerged over his future with Champions League winners\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/football\/team\/1250213\/paris-saint-germain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PSG<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Anfield giants have already spent \u00a329.5m on Wirtz\u2019s Leverkusen team-mate, defender\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/jeremie-frimpong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeremie Frimpong<\/a>, 24, with another \u00a340m-plus earmarked for Bournemouth\u2019s 21-year-old left-back Milos Kerkez.<\/p>\n<p>But it is the prospect of Barcola teaming up with Wirtz, 22, and Anfield icon Mo Salah, 32, which will have fans pinching themselves. Barcola, who is Bayern\u2019s No\u200a1 target, is no longer part of PSG\u2019s first-choice front three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kop in for PSG ace Barcola EXCLUSIVE: Liverpool are set to swoop for Paris Saint-Germain star Bradley Barcola&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,1921,179,189,1922,100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-176728","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-live-blogs","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-section-sportfootball","14":"tag-sport-live-blogs","15":"tag-transfer-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114666949050884979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176728","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=176728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}