{"id":278645,"date":"2025-07-21T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278645\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:30:10","slug":"liverpool-star-keen-to-leave-anfield-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278645\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool star keen to leave Anfield | Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Liverpool continue their pre-season preparations with a friendly against Italian side AC Milan on\u00a0<\/strong><b>Saturday.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Arne Slot\u2019s side beat Preston North End 3-1 in their first friendly of the summer at Deepdale earlier this month, and they now embark on a tour of Asia where they will face Milan and Yokohama F. Marinos.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds have already added Jeremie Frimpong, Milos Kerkez and Florian Wirtz to Slot\u2019s squad, while Trent Alexander-Arnold has departed Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it has emerged that another member of Slot\u2019s squad could soon leave the club.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2025\/07\/20\/luis-diaz-wants-leave-liverpool-bayern-munich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CaughtOffside<\/a>, winger Luis Diaz has expressed his desire to leave Liverpool amid interest from German champions Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p>It is claimed that Bayern\u2019s initial bid of around \u00a345 million was rejected by Liverpool, who then also rebuffed an offer in the region of \u00a358.5 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shoot.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3BX70PB-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125599\" class=\"size-large wp-image-125599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3BX70PB-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-125599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diaz could leave Liverpool this summer (Photo: BMD Images\/Alamy)<\/p>\n<p>The German giants are said to be reluctant to pay more than \u00a360 million initially for the player, while the Reds are holding out for a fee of around \u00a370-75 million.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz, 28, joined Liverpool from Portuguese side Porto in 2022 and has since played 148 times for the club across all competitions, scoring 41 goals and registering 23 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he started 28 of Liverpool\u2019s 38 Premier League games as they stormed to the title in Slot\u2019s first season in charge.<\/p>\n<p>The winger is said to have rejected several new contract offers from his current employers, reiterating the fact that he wishes to embark on a new challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz is under contract at Anfield until the end of the 2026\/27 season, but it appears increasingly likely that he could depart the club this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabian sides Al Nassr and Al Hilal are also said to be interested in the Colombian and would be willing to meet Liverpool\u2019s financial demands, however the player himself is keen to stay in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool continue their pre-season preparations with a friendly against Italian side AC Milan on\u00a0Saturday.\u00a0 Arne Slot\u2019s side beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-278645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114888404640027784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278645","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=278645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}