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Liverpool’s opening move for Yan Diomande has turned this summer’s window up a notch this week.
Reports in Germany and England confirmed that Liverpool tabled a huge first offer worth around €100m, structured as roughly €90m guaranteed plus a further €10m in achievable add‑ons to tempt RB Leipzig into doing business.
For most clubs that kind of proposal would all but end the conversation.
But Leipzig’s stance has been predictably stubborn.
The Bundesliga side are signalling they want a package closer to €120m before they even think about green‑lighting a sale, especially with Diomande shining on the World Cup stage and interest expected from PSG and others.
It comes amid the 19-year-old specifically naming Florian Wirtz in the media this week.
Speaking ahead of Ivory Coast’s Group E clash against Germany this weekend, Yan Diomade made special mention of Florian Wirtz, hailing him as a “creative player” who can “change a game”:
“When you play in Germany, you quickly see that everything there is very structured,” he said to BILD as quoted by iMiaSanMia.
“Discipline is very important, punctuality, intensity in training. I learned a lot as a result, both on and off the pitch. Germany is a very strong team; they never give up and fight until the end.
“Add to that their individual quality. That makes them very strong. Florian Wirtz, for example, is a very creative player who finds solutions in the final third, even in tight spaces. Players like that can change a game with a single action.”
It is, at the very least, intriguing that in the middle of a very public tug‑of‑war over his future, Diomande is happily highlighting a Liverpool player.
It only adds another layer of intrigue to a transfer story that already has all the ingredients to run and run this summer.