Latest Liverpool transfer news as RB Leipzig attacker Yan Diomande is given a club-record price tag ahead of a teased summer saga
Yan Diomande of RB Leipzig celebrates
Yan Diomande's RB Leipzig form has seen him linked with a Liverpool transfer(Image: Grzegorz Wajda/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Liverpool have been warned it will take a club-record fee to sign RB Leipzig sensation Yan Diomande during the upcoming summer transfer window. The Reds have been linked with the teenage attacker amid his breakout season in the Bundesliga.
Diomande, 19, has made 18 appearances for the Red Bull club in 2025/26 with a return of seven goals and four assists. This helped in earning a call-up to his native Ivory Coast's squad for the latest Africa Cup of Nations, where he was given five outings and scored his first goal of his career in the major tournament.
His impact for club and country has seen Diomande linked with making the leap from Leipzig to Liverpool - a path well-trodden, and last done so by Dominik Szoboszlai.
However, Leipzig value their talent so highly that they will not allow him to leave for cheap. Sky Sports Germany's Florian Plettenberg reports that the player has a price tag worth 'at least €100m' (£86.7m).
A sum this high would be a club-record sale for the German side, overtaking the €90m (£78m) Manchester City paid for Croatian defender Josko Gvardiol in January 2023.
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However, it is outlined how Leipzig's demand will only hold strong under the condition that Diomande's performances 'do not stagnate' between now and the end of the current campaign.
In England, Sky Sports say the €100m is putting Liverpool and other interested clubs off making a bid this January. They would rather secure a deal in the region of €60m–70m (£52m-60.6m).
But this would be impossible given the emphatic recent statement of Oliver Mintzlaff, chairman of Red Bull’s supervisory board.
"As chairman of the supervisory board, I can confidently say he will definitely remain with us next season — even if an offer of €80m or €90m were to come in," he told Sky Sports Germany.
It remains to be seen this summer how Leipzig's resolve will hold against the dream of Diomande to one day play for Liverpool.
"I want to play at Anfield, I want to play for Liverpool. I’m a big fan of Liverpool," the teenager revealed during a TikTok stream. "I’m a big fan of Liverpool because my father’s dream is to see me play at Anfield. So that’s my dream.
"You know, to fulfil my father’s dream is a dream for me too."