Over the past day, Liverpool FC have been rumoured to be on the lookout for another attacker (other than Alexander Isak) to join the mix. Specifically, a versatile one.
Here’s a Sky Sports report talking about this:
Such a qualities would certainly apply to someone like Lyon’s Malick Fofana, or Bournemouth’s Antoine Semenyo, both of whom have been linked to Liverpool this summer or in previous seasons. Able to play left, right, down the middle, pop up with some goals… that’s the general idea. This report also coincidentally coincided with more rumours of someone previously linked with Liverpool earlier in the window… Real Madrid’s Rodrygo.
I am normally quite dimissive of any Real Madrid to Liverpool links, because any such transfer almost certainly involves a pay cut of some kind, and a huge adjustment in squad culture. I also have concerns about Rodrygo’s size and physicality translating to the EPL, but that’s another matter for another day. However, Liverpool reportedly were keen on Rodrygo when he was at Santos, and this club has shown that they actively track such targets long-term. He doesn’t appear to be on Xabi Alonso’s plans, staying on the bench against Osasuna while Brahim Diaz, and Arda Guler started ahead of him. Even Franco Mastantuono got off the bench ahead of him.
Realistically, there’s only a handful of clubs that could afford a player like Rodrygo and most of them are in England. Manchester City were briefly linked with him when Spurs were rumoured to be signing Savinho, but that appears to have died down. There were murmurs of Arsenal trying to sniff around for a loan move. And of course, Liverpool were linked with him right when Luis Diaz was about to leave for Bayern Munich, but those links died down and Liverpool went full speed ahead on the Isak pursuit.
However, the window is closing, and the market is running out of suitors. Perhaps, Real Madrid are now much more inclined to take a step down from the €100m figure that was bandied about a month or so ago.
For Rodrygo, playing time in a World Cup year would worry him, and his long-term preference of playing on the left-wing would be possible for him at Liverpool. Perhaps, the combination of a player clearly being surplus to requirements, him needing playing time and being open to a more of a important squad player role than the superstar he was expected to become at Madrid, his elite pedigree, and a reasonable salary cut would make for the sort of perfect storm that creates the “market opportunity” FSG are known to capitalise on.
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