According to reports, Liverpool have responded to Crystal Palace\u2019s \u2018bluff\u2019 over Marc Guehi after missing out on the centre-back on deadline day.<\/p>\n
Liverpool\u2019s move to Guehi<\/strong><\/a> fell through on deadline day as Crystal Palace decided to pull the plug at the eleventh hour.<\/p>\n Guehi is considered one of the best centre-backs in the Premier League, but he was available for a cut-price fee in the summer as he is in the final year of his contract.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Liverpool<\/strong><\/a> reached an agreement with Palace to sign Guehi for around \u00a335m on deadline day, but Palace withdrew from talks after failing to land West Ham newbie Igior Julio from Brighton as a replacement.<\/p>\n This is a blow for Liverpool, whose summer transfer window was nearly perfect after\u00a0they invested around \u00a3415m on signings as the biggest spenders in Europe.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Florian Wirtz is Liverpool \u2018passenger\u2019 and the new Juan Sebastian Veron<\/a> Alexander Isak, Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike, Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez were their most notable signings, but following their failure to land Guehi, they would be short at centre-back if Virgil van Dijk or Ibrahima Konate pick up an injury.<\/p>\n Despite this, a report over the weekend claimed Liverpool are \u2018adamant\u2019 that they have no intention of making a new bid for Guehi in January<\/strong><\/a> as they intend to wait until next summer to sign him on a free transfer.<\/p>\n The Telegraph have since confirmed<\/a> that Liverpool\u2019s \u2018new plan\u2019 is to sign Guehi on a free transfer, as they \u2018understand that he sees his long-term future at Anfield\u2019, though \u2018other clubs are believed to be ready to rival them for his signature\u2019.<\/p>\n Regarding this interest, it is noted that Liverpool \u2018see the referencing of other clubs as a bluff to bring them back to the table on January 1, so far as they are concerned, it was \u00a335 million for Guehi in the summer or a free transfer next year\u2019.<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 Despite this, Football Insider\u2019s Pete O\u2019Rourke is reporting that Real Madrid are \u2018ready to offer a huge signing-on fee\u2019 to beat Liverpool in the race to sign Guehi next year.<\/p>\n O\u2019Rourke explained: \u201cWe know how good the likes of Real Madrid and Juventus are at landing free agents.<\/p>\n \u201cThey do specialise in that, to try and sign players on free transfers, usually with the offer of a huge signing-on fee as well.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously it\u2019s hard to compete with the likes of Real Madrid when it comes to signing [under-contract] players as well.<\/p>\n \u201cLiverpool have now done so much work on Guehi that they\u2019ll be hopeful that, although they did miss out last-minute in this window, they can finally get a deal done.<\/p>\n \u201c[That will] either be in January if the situation arises, or on a free transfer next summer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to reports, Liverpool have responded to Crystal Palace\u2019s \u2018bluff\u2019 over Marc Guehi after missing out on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,225,179,2697,12,101,544,10031,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-407334","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-marc-guehi","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-premier-league","16":"tag-real-madrid","17":"tag-soccer","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115167685721137789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407334","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=407334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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