{"id":338727,"date":"2025-08-12T15:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338727\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:06:13","slug":"giovanni-leoni-asking-price-and-homegrown-status-if-he-joins-liverpool-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338727\/","title":{"rendered":"Giovanni Leoni asking price and homegrown status if he joins Liverpool – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Giovanni Leoni is on Liverpool\u2019s radar as the Premier League<\/a> champions attempt to convince the Parma centre-back to leave Italy, with his price tag fairly low.<\/b><\/p>\n

Leoni is one of the primary candidates as Liverpool consider adding at least one new centre-back to Arne Slot<\/a>\u2018s squad before the transfer window closes.<\/p>\n

This Is Anfield understands the situation around a deal is exploratory at present, with no contact made with the 18-year-old\u2019s club<\/a> as it stands.<\/p>\n

Instead the focus is on convincing now is the right time for Leoni to leave his home country and make the move to the Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Crucial to any urgency over that process is that if the teenager were to join Liverpool this summer he would eventually qualify as a homegrown player under FA rules.<\/p>\n

In order to become homegrown eligible, a player must spent a period of three seasons \u2013 continuous or otherwise \u2013 at a club under the FA or Welsh FA before his 21st birthday (or the end of the season during which he turns 21).<\/p>\n

If he were to join Liverpool this summer, Leoni would turn 21 during his third campaign with the club \u2013 and therefore would qualify as homegrown in 2028\/29.<\/p>\n

Before then the Italy youth international would not take up a spot in the senior squad for the Premier League<\/a> as he would be classed as under-21.<\/p>\n

How much are Parma asking for Leoni?<\/p>\n

While the specifics of any proposed deal are as yet unknown, reports in Italy are stating Parma\u2019s asking price at around \u20ac40 million (\u00a334.6m).<\/p>\n

That is similar to the fee brought in with Jarell Quansah<\/a>\u2018s sale to Bayer Leverkusen<\/a> earlier in the summer, with it realistic that \u2013 were he to join \u2013 Leoni would effectively take the Englishman\u2019s place.<\/p>\n

It is well known that Liverpool are facing no issues with the Premier League<\/a>\u2018s profit and sustainability rules despite a heavy-spending summer so far.<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

This is aided by seven senior players being sold for a combined \u00a3191 million so far and the scope for others, such as Harvey Elliott<\/a> and Kostas Tsimikas<\/a>, to follow in big-money deals.<\/p>\n

Liverpool could therefore feasibly target deals for both Leoni and Crystal Palace<\/a> centre-back Marc Guehi \u2013 who himself would class as homegrown \u2013 along with a potential British record transfer for Newcastle<\/a>\u2018s Alexander Isak.<\/p>\n

Isak would take Darwin Nunez<\/a>\u2018s spot in the squad as a non-homegrown player, with there no further need to reduce the numbers to comply with squad rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giovanni Leoni is on Liverpool\u2019s radar as the Premier League champions attempt to convince the Parma centre-back to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,763,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-338727","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-liverpool","12":"tag-liverpool-fc","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115016420131969533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338727","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=338727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}