{"id":248308,"date":"2025-07-08T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248308\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:24:09","slug":"liverpool-want-10m-star-compared-to-dean-huijsen-scout-says-he-is-probably-the-best-young-defender-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248308\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool want \u00a310m star compared to Dean Huijsen, scout says he is &#8216;probably the best young defender&#8217; around"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>TBR Football can exclusively reveal that Liverpool are now keen to sign one of the best young defenders in Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Richard Hughes \u2013 Director of Football at Anfield \u2013 is in the market for a new central defender, as <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/liverpool-extremely-concerned-after-contract-talks-with-35m-star-he-holds-all-the-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contract talks with Ibrahima Konate stall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/how-steve-parish-feels-about-selling-marc-guehi-amid-links-with-liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool are admirers of Marc Guehi<\/a> \u2013 the England international only has 12 months remaining on his contract at Crystal Palace \u2013 but as that pursuit stalls, sources have exclusively informed <strong>TBR Football<\/strong> that the Reds now have a genuine interest in Parma No.46 Giovanni Leoni.<\/p>\n<p>Exclusive news emerges as Liverpool target Giovanni Leoni<\/p>\n<p>Graeme Bailey \u2013 Chief Correspondent at <strong>TBR Football<\/strong> \u2013 has now been informed that <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a> are one of several <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/english-premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> sides targeting the Italian.<\/p>\n<p>We understand Parma are eager to keep Leoni, having only signed the 18-year-old from Sampdoria in June 2024 for a fee of around \u00a310m.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Serie A outfit look set to have their resolve seriously tested.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TBR Football<\/strong> are aware that Chelsea, Tottenham, Newcastle and Bournemouth are all interested in Leoni along with Liverpool, while Italian giants Inter Milan, AC Milan and Juventus are admirers too.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bailey says: \u201cOne scout has told me that Leoni is probably the best young defender he saw last season \u2013 composed, elegant and defensively astute. He actually compared him to Dean Huijsen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParma insist they do not want to sell, but the chance of trebling their money on him in just 12 months might be too much to say no to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am told that Parma were happy for Leoni to be under the radar, but with clubs flocking to see (Zion) Suzuki, it was only natural that Leoni would attract interest too, and that is exactly what has happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe Parma would be doing very well to keep Leoni beyond this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TBR Football can also provide exclusive news on Zion Suzuki<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the aforementioned Suzuki, Manchester United and West Ham are understood to be admirers of the Japan international.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In fact, <strong>TBR Football<\/strong> have been told <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/west-ham-make-contact-over-manchester-united-target-whos-one-of-the-greatest-talents-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Ham made contact with Parma<\/a> last week over a deal for the goalkeeper, as Graham Potter is keen to have a new No.1 in place for next season.<\/p>\n<p>However, Suzuki is not expected to agitate for a move away this summer, so West Ham must be convincing in talks with the 22-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TBR Football can exclusively reveal that Liverpool are now keen to sign one of the best young defenders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,162,96045,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-248308","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-english-premier-league","11":"tag-giovanni-leoni","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114818309549540568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248308","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=248308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}