{"id":478208,"date":"2025-10-06T13:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/478208\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T13:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:47:16","slug":"whether-liverpool-have-a-buy-back-clause-on-sepp-van-den-berg-after-erling-haaland-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/478208\/","title":{"rendered":"Whether Liverpool have a buy-back clause on Sepp van den Berg after Erling Haaland praise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Liverpool are almost certain to sign a new centre-back in 2026 after failing to bring Marc Guehi to the club on transfer deadline day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the Reds buying Giovanni Leoni during the summer, they clearly felt the need to add one more to Arne Slot\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n

Since then, Leoni has been ruled out for the season with a serious knee injury, leaving Slot with only three senior centre-halves to call upon.<\/p>\n

There is real uncertainty over Ibrahima Konate\u2019s Liverpool future<\/a> too, meaning the Reds could be down to just two options \u2013 Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez \u2013 by the start of next summer\u2019s transfer window.<\/p>\n

It is in stark contrast to the summer of 2024, when Liverpool<\/a> nominally had five centre-backs on the books, with Sepp van den Berg<\/a> arriving back from a stellar loan spell at Mainz.<\/p>\n

Van den Berg ultimately joined Brentford for \u00a325m, with the youngster seeing no pathway to the first XI at Anfield<\/a>. The Dutchman has since established himself in the Premier League with the Bees, and after Van den Berg earned praise from Erling Haaland<\/a> on Sunday, is there a chance Liverpool look to bring him back?<\/p>\n

\"SeppPhoto by John Powell\/Liverpool FC via Getty ImagesLiverpool do not have a buy-back clause on Sepp van den Berg<\/p>\n

Van den Berg has not been the only promising young centre-back to leave Liverpool over the past 18 months. Jarell Quansah has also departed, joining Bayer Leverkusen in July.<\/p>\n

Reports have since suggested that Liverpool still see a future at Anfield for Quansah<\/a>, and have inserted a reasonable buy-back clause into his contract in Germany.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: \u2018Special\u2019 Liverpool player pulls out of international duty with mysterious injury after Chelsea cameo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

But with Van den Berg continuing to do well at Brentford \u2013 and attracting praise from arguably the best centre-forward in the game \u2013 did the Reds take a similar approach with the 23-year-old?<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, reports from the time of his sale suggest that Liverpool did not add a buy-back juncture to Van den Berg\u2019s move to Brentford.<\/p>\n

As per The Athletic<\/a>, there is no mention of the Reds agreeing to a future fee for the Netherlands U21 international.<\/p>\n

They do reportedly possess a 17.5% sell-on clause to bank any profit if Van den Berg leaves Brentford. But, sadly, there is no mechanism for Liverpool to easily bring him back to Anfield.<\/p>\n

Van den Berg could still be an option for Liverpool<\/p>\n

Despite the lack of a buy-back in Van den Berg\u2019s contract, Liverpool fans should not rule the former Zwolle man out of being an option in the transfer market.<\/p>\n

Slot appeared to be a fan of Van den Berg<\/a> during their short time together, and if he can step things up for Brentford in the coming months, maybe Liverpool could look to him again.<\/p>\n

Having been signed by the Reds as a 17-year-old, Van den Berg would also count towards the homegrown quota for Slot, something that is important given the current rules.<\/p>\n

Clearly, the Brentford man is not quite good enough to be a starter for Liverpool, but as a third or fourth-choice option Slot could do far worse.<\/p>\n

If Van den Berg can keep earning praise from the likes of Haaland, perhaps Liverpool will take a second look. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool are almost certain to sign a new centre-back in 2026 after failing to bring Marc Guehi to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,1103,4884,179,158842,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-478208","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-erling-haaland","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-sepp-van-den-berg","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115327536140497962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478208","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=478208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}