Liverpool will need \u201chuge offers\u201d to prise two Newcastle players away from St James\u2019 Park this summer but came \u201creally close\u201d with their first bid to sign one of them.<\/p>\n
Reds sporting director Richard Hughes isn\u2019t wasting any time in bolstering Arne Slot\u2019s title-winning squad this summer, with the British-record signing of Florian Wirtz for \u00a3116m imminently expected<\/a><\/strong> to follow the \u00a329.7m addition of Jeremie Frimpong, with both arriving from Bayer Leverkusen.<\/p>\n And the door has now been opened for Milos Kerkez to arrive as their third summer signing as Bournemouth announced the transfer\u00a0of\u00a0Adrien Truffert from Rennes for \u00a314.5m as his replacement<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not yet clear what Liverpool will have to pay for Kerkez with Bournemouth valuing the Hungary international at \u00a345m, but transfer expert Florian Plettenburg claimed over the weekend that\u00a0Liverpool are \u201c100% convinced\u201d that they will sign Kerkez this summer.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n He tweeted: \u2018Liverpool are 100% convinced that the transfer of Milos #Kerkez will go through.<\/p>\n \u2018It is set to be finalised once Florian Wirtz has signed and been presented. A verbal agreement between #LFC and Kerkez is done.\u2019<\/p>\n talkSPORT\u2019s chief football correspondent Alex Crook says he \u201calways expected Liverpool to go big\u201d this summer.<\/p>\n He explained<\/a><\/strong>: \u201cThey have got money because they haven\u2019t really spent in the last couple of years.<\/p>\n \u201cThey signed (Giorgi) Mamardashvili, he\u2019s going to come in as a backup goalkeeper to Alisson.<\/p>\n \u201cThey signed (Federico) Chiesa for a relatively modest sum, again, a move that probably hasn\u2019t particularly worked out. But I always expected Liverpool to go big.\u201d<\/p>\n But Liverpool are widely expected to continue pushing for further additions this summer, with a new centre-back said to be on their wishlist, while Slot also wants to improve his forward options.<\/p>\n A new striker is a priority as Darwin Nunez looks set to leave the club, while doubts over the future of Luis Diaz amid strong interest from Barcelona has also led to links with left wingers.<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<\/strong> Alexander Isak is said to be Slot\u2019s first choice striker, while Anthony Gordon remains on their radar having come \u201creally close\u201d to joining the club last summer, according to Crook.<\/p>\n He added: \u201cThey are massive admirers of Alexander Isak, no question about that, but it would take a huge offer to prise him away from Newcastle.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Gordon one is interesting. It\u2019s one I\u2019ve always kept in my back pocket, as one that could be revisited, because he was very close to joining Liverpool this time last year, really close.<\/p>\n \u201cTo the extent where the deal was down to the final stages, and I think Newcastle just decided, we actually can\u2019t part company with this guy.<\/p>\n \u201cSo it wouldn\u2019t surprise me if there\u2019s still an itch there on Liverpool\u2019s part that needs to be scratched.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I think it would take a big offer, and maybe they\u2019re going to have to get players off the payroll before they would look at that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool will need \u201chuge offers\u201d to prise two Newcastle players away from St James\u2019 Park this summer but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9261,16404,163,13,179,3047,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-189792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alexander-isak","9":"tag-anthony-gordon","10":"tag-front-page","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-newcastle-united","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114694788384508128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189792","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=189792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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