Jurgen Klopp looking on during Liverpool's Premier League match.
Jurgen Klopp looking on during Liverpool's Premier League match.
Diogo Jota is set to be made available at Liverpool this summer, TBR Football can exclusively reveal.
Liverpool signed Diogo Jota from Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2020 and the versatile forward has gone on to make 182 appearances in red.
The Portugal international has now gone beyond the 131 games he played for Wolves before making the step up to Liverpool.
Jota was signed off the back of Liverpool’s Premier League triumph under Jurgen Klopp in the 2019/20 season, and he has now earned a medal of his own under Arne Slot’s stewardship.
And in the midst of Matheus Cunha’s departure from Wolves to Manchester United, Jota is now being linked with a move back to Molineux.
Liverpool willing to sell Diogo Jota but he doesn’t want Wolves return
That being said, TBR Football chief correspondent Graeme Bailey can reveal that Wolves have decided against any move to bring Jota back to the club this summer.
Jota’s name was being considered as a possible replacement for Cunha, who will be playing his football at Old Trafford next season.
Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images
Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images
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Sources have confirmed that Jota will be made available this summer — a player that Liverpool would allow to leave.
However, Jota does not see a move back to Wolves as the correct decision at this point of his career.
It’s understood that the Saudi Pro League are admirers of Jota, but there is also real interest from around Europe.
The forward made 37 appearances under Slot this season, scoring nine goals and providing four assists.
And one of the clubs believed to hold an interest in Jota is RB Leipzig, where Klopp would be well placed to advise of his talents.
Jurgen Klopp said Diogo Jota was ‘so valuable’ for Liverpool
Of course, Klopp often leaned on Jota’s talent during his time in charge at Liverpool, a player he paid £45m to sign from Wolves.
And when speaking in 2023 after Jota had just scored four times in six days for the Reds, Klopp explained why he thought the forward was ‘so valuable’, irrespective of the goals he scored.
Celebrating Jota’s defensive efforts as well as his forward play, Klopp said: “As an offensive player, be involved in absolutely each defensive situation and still be a threat offensively.
“There’s no if/or, you can do both. Diogo is doing that. That makes him so valuable for us, and that’s why he deserves that.
“It’s wonderful, after the long, long time he was out, now having these positive things.”
In an ideal world, Liverpool would love to sign Alexander Isak from Newcastle United this summer, potentially to replace someone like Jota or Darwin Nunez.
But it remains to be seen if there will be any hope of tempting the Swede away from St James’ Park.