{"id":279692,"date":"2025-07-21T10:15:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279692\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:15:24","slug":"liverpool-hold-discussions-for-luis-diaz-replacement-in-alternative-signing-of-arsenal-chelsea-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279692\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool &#8216;hold discussions&#8217; for Luis Diaz replacement in &#8216;alternative signing&#8217; of Arsenal, Chelsea target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool are looking to bring in Lyon winger Malick Fofana as a potential replacement if Luis Diaz leaves for Bayern Munich, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds have made a brilliant start to the summer transfer window with FSG acting quickly to support Arne Slot\u2019s wishes by bringing in Florian Wirtz, Milos Kerkez and Jeremie Frimpong.<\/p>\n<p>As well as incomings, there have been rumours that some players could leave with Diaz, Darwin Nunez, Harvey Elliott and Ibrahima Konate among the names linked with exits.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia international Diaz is a player most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Liverpool<\/strong><\/a> fans would want to keep at the club, while the Reds have already rejected approaches from Bayern Munich and Barcelona for the winger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/ornstein-liverpool-reject-58-6m-official-bid-from-bayern-munich-for-luis-diaz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Athletic\u2018s David Ornstein revealed last week that Bayern Munich\u2019s official bid of\u00a0\u00a358.6m<\/strong><\/a> for Diaz had been rejected and that Liverpool had doubled down on their stance that he is not for sale.<\/p>\n<p>However, it remains to be seen whether that is an effort to squeeze as much money out of Bayern Munich as possible with rumours that Diaz has told Liverpool he wants to leave.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/premier-league-pre-season-fixtures-results-2025-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Every Premier League club\u2019s 2025 pre-season friendly fixtures and results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Transfer expert Fabrizio\u00a0Romano wrote on social media: \u2018Luis Diaz mantains his plan to leave Liverpool with FC Bayern set to bid again very soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Bayern want to improve their proposal after \u20ac67m rejected as they keep negotiating also for Woltemade.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Barcelona remain in contact with Lucho\u2019s agents while Bayern can spend more.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>While Sky Germany reporter Florian Plettenberg gave similar details over a potential summer move for Diaz, he\u00a0posted on\u00a0X: \u2018Luis Diaz has not only informed Liverpool of his desire to leave, but has now also made it clear to LFC that he would like to join FC Bayern if possible. The transfer is approved by Vincent Kompany.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE ON LIVERPOOL FROM F365\u2026<br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/real-madrid-offer-liverpool-perfect-player-plus-cash-deal-snatch-konate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Madrid offer Liverpool \u2018perfect\u2019 player-plus-cash deal to snatch Konate<\/a><br \/><\/strong><strong>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/romano-drops-ekitike-here-we-go-after-ornstein-reveals-further-additions-for-liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romano drops Ekitike \u2018here we go\u2019 after Ornstein reveals \u2018further additions\u2019 for Liverpool<\/a><br \/><\/strong><strong>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/isak-most-likely-outcome-lunacy-newcastle-owners-funding-liverpool-signing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Isak \u2018most likely\u2019 outcome mooted amid \u2018lunacy\u2019 of Newcastle owners \u2018funding\u2019 Liverpool signing<\/a><\/strong><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018There is no full agreement between Bayern and D\u00edaz yet. However, personal terms are not an issue, with a potential contract running at least until 2029. It is now up to Bayern to reach an agreement with Liverpool.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>And <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2025\/07\/21\/liverpool-hold-discussions-malick-fofana-agent\/\" target=\"_blank\">now Caught Offside insist that<\/a> Liverpool have joined the race to sign Lyon winger Fofana with\u00a0Chelsea, Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain also looking to add the Balgian to their squad \u2013 but \u2018no official offer has been made yet\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Lyon are holding out for a fee between\u00a0\u20ac50-60m as his former club\u00a0KAA Gent will get 20 per cent of any profit that the French club make and Liverpool \u2018are evaluating Fofana\u00a0as an alternative signing\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds have \u2018held \u201cdiscussions\u201d with his representatives but has yet to submit a formal offer\u2019 as Liverpool look to line up a potential replacement for Diaz if he were to leave this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Former Liverpool midfielder Didi Hamann doesn\u2019t understand why Bayern Munich are pursuing a move to sign Diaz this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Hamann told Sky Germany: \u201cTo now bring in Luis Diaz, a 28-year-old South American who played 50 games per season for four or five years and has those long flights home, which are also a problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo pay 70 or 80 million for that, while the sale value is zero because he would be 32 at the end of his contract, I wonder what they even have the campus for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool are looking to bring in Lyon winger Malick Fofana as a potential replacement if Luis Diaz leaves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,225,179,8902,42874,12,101,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-279692","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-home-page","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-luis-diaz","14":"tag-malick-fofana","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-premier-league","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114890704362268376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279692","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=279692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}