{"id":341438,"date":"2025-08-13T15:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341438\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:09:12","slug":"liverpool-transfer-deal-for-giovanni-leoni-is-disappointing-and-i-am-angry-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341438\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool transfer deal for Giovanni Leoni is disappointing and I am angry about it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italian football legend Arrigo Sacchi is unhappy at the prospect of another young talent leaving the country as Liverpool line up transfer\"GiovanniGiovanni Leoni of Parma(Image: Leo Simon – Parma Calcio 1913\/Parma Calcio 1913 via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Italian football legend Arrigo Sacchi has expressed his disappointment at the prospect of teenage centre-back Giovanni Leoni joining Liverpool. But the former Italy and AC Milan boss believes the Reds will have acquired a “real talent” if they can conclude a deal with Parma for the 18-year-old.<\/p>\n

Liverpool<\/a> are ready to step up their interest in Leoni as they look to reconfigure their centre-back options following the departure of Jarell Quansah<\/a> to Bayer Leverkusen earlier in the summer.<\/p>\n

Reports in Italy have claimed the defender is open to the move and Parma have made him available for \u20ac30million (\u00a326m) plus bonuses.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Reds have been in the market for a young centre-back for several years and have previously been thwarted in their attempts to sign Levi Colwill, Leny Yoro and Dean Huijsen.<\/p>\n

But they are now thought to have nudged ahead of Inter Milan in the race for Leoni with Sacchi admitting he would prefer that not to be the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiverpool would make a great signing, and he could thrive in the Premier League<\/a>,” he said. “It\u2019s a shame he\u2019s eluding the big clubs in Serie A. On the one hand, the news makes me immensely happy, and on the other, it makes me a little angry.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me explain \u2013 I\u2019m happy that an Italian player is receiving praise from a major club like Liverpool, but I wish AC Milan or Inter, Juventus or Napoli were competing for his transfer, not a foreign club.<\/p>\n

“I’m told Italian teams don’t have the same financial resources as English clubs. Absolutely true, but I add – why hasn’t the football product been exploited here like in England? Why is it so complicated to buy a \u20ac40m defender for an Italian club, and yet Liverpool doesn’t flinch?”<\/p>\n

Sacchi, writing in his column in Italian news outlet Gazzetta dell Sport,<\/a> added: \u201cWe\u2019ll see if the deal goes through, but in any case, I feel like the Reds would make a great coup by securing this boy, whom I followed with curiosity and interest in the second half of last season.<\/p>\n

“Leoni is only 18, and I\u2019m told he\u2019s a decent guy, hard-working, humble, and very determined. Character is crucial in a footballer\u2019s career, as is temperament.<\/p>\n

“If these two qualities are present, then the journey can proceed without any particular problems. It seems to me that Leoni is off to a good start: after all, if a major European club like Liverpool is persistently pursuing him, there must be a reason.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re dealing with a talent, there\u2019s no doubt about that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian football legend Arrigo Sacchi is unhappy at the prospect of another young talent leaving the country as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[763,1596,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-341438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-liverpool-fc","9":"tag-liverpool-fc-transfer-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115022093640906859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341438","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=341438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}