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Liverpool transfer news - Yan Diomande alternative identified, World Cup star bidding war

It's the hope that kills you. Liverpool are set to miss out on a top transfer target again, in a development with echoes of Real Madrid 's capture of Jude Bellingham three years ago this summer. In truth, it was always going to be difficult to convince Yan Diomande that Liverpool in their current state are a better prospect than PSG to meet the precocious Ivorian's lofty ambitions, and that has proved to be the case as the 19-year-old has chosen the back-to-back Champions League winners as his next club should he leave RB Leipzig in the current window ( The Athletic ). It is unclear what Liverpool's next step is with regard to Diomande. Sky Sports have reported that the Reds were reluctant to meet Leipzig's €130m asking price, "which appears to give PSG a clear run at the winger," and GiveMeSport have claimed accordingly that Liverpool have now ended their interest as a result. TEAMtalk , however, insist the Reds' "immediate focus remains on Diomande" but point towards PSG contract rebel Bradley Barcola as the next alternative, who "will seek a move if he cannot secure a guaranteed first-team role next season" - plenty more on him to come. Frustratingly, L'Equipe (via Get French Football News ) have even claimed that the agreement - which is "very close" - will see PSG offer a lower salary to Diomande than the one Liverpool were reportedly willing to pay, while the transfer fee will also be lower due to "close ties between [Nasser] Al-Khelaifi [the PSG chairman] and Leipzig's management". This is what we're up against. PSG are an absolute juggernaut right now, on the pitch and off it, and their stranglehold over French football is threatening to spill over into the European game at large. All the same, we're sure Diomande won't have any second thoughts about his decision once he's sitting on the bench behind Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Desire Doue and Ousmane Dembele for all of PSG's most important games next season. I promise I'm not bitter. In any case, now is definitely not the moment to look away as it's all up in the air as to where Liverpool turn next. Join us once again as we round up the latest gossip and rumours in the Reds transfer news column.... PSG, for their part, have wasted absolutely no time at all in cracking on with a deal for Diomande after getting the green light from the player's camp, and have already agreed a five-year contract with his representatives ( Sky Sports ). There seems to be plenty still to do on the club side, though. RB Leipzig managing director for sport, Marcel Schafer, has waded into the fray in an interview with Bild (via The Athletic ), claiming confidently that Diomande "will remain a Leipzig player". Schafer said: "Our clear intention is: Yan Diomande will play for RB Leipzig next year and we're not backing down from that. We know what we have in him. "Of course, if Yan continues like this, the time will come when we give him the opportunity to take the next step – but not this year." That seems hard to believe, as Liverpool evidently had sufficient encouragement to launch a formal bid for the player, and Diomande is therefore still expected to make the move to the French capital. Fabrizio Romano has reported as much, suggesting that Leipzig want more than €100m or a lower fee with a loan to keep him in Saxony for one more season. According to Romano, Liverpool will not return to the table for Diomande "unless the player changes his mind." However, the Italian transfer guru did provide a positive thread for Liverpool fans to cling onto on his YouTube channel in the form of an update on PSG winger Bradley Barcola, who has long been linked with an Anfield move. Romano refuted the claims of French sources that Barcola will stay at the Parc de Princes this summer, reiterating that "there is still a possibility" for the 23-year-old Frenchman to move on - with Barcola "remaining a name" for Liverpool. "Remember what I always told you about Liverpool and Bradley Barcola," Romano said. "If Liverpool go strong, there is still a possibility to see movement around Bradley Barcola, especially with this Yan Diomande story going in the direction of Paris Saint-Germain. "For Diomande [to] Liverpool [or] PSG, don't forget Barcola, because it could be Barcola [to] Liverpool, Diomande [to] PSG. And now, after a few weeks, we are going in that direction - but aqain, it depends if PSG give the green light to the exit of Barcola this summer or not. "But there is movement around the player since a long time." Sky Sports have echoed this, while Marca journalist Matteo Moretto teased on X that Liverpool are "planning new contacts" with Barcola, who has shown his class at club and international level but has struggled to break into the formidable forward lines of either PSG or France. While Diomande's ceiling looks potentially even higher than Barcola's, the Frenchman - who predominantly plays on the left side of the attack - still has all the tools to prove himself a world class player and would arguably offer more certainty having put up strong numbers over a number of seasons as opposed to just one, in Diomande's case. PSG's apparent victory in the race for Diomande appears to have had no impact on their pursuit of Monaco's Maghnes Akliouche, according to Romano again, with the 24-year-old also previously touted as a potential target for Liverpool this summer. Other credible alternatives ( The Athletic ) are Brighton's Yankuba Minteh, Lille's Matias Fernandez-Pardo and FC Koln's Said El Mala . A pair of contrasting reports emerged from Germany over the weekend regarding the third player in that proposed shortlist for Liverpool, FC Koln's Said El Mala. The 19-year-old German enjoyed a similarly strong breakout season to Diomande last term, scoring 13 goals and assisting four from just 20 Bundesliga starts, and has already been the subject of an accepted offer from Brentford - which the player turned down ( Sky Sports Germany ). The bid in question amounted to around €50m and could have broke the Bees' transfer record. According to German publication Express , Koln "would certainly have liked" to have the funds available for a "major shopping spree" as the Bundesliga stragglers' management looks to revitalise a side that barely survived relegation last season, but El Mala didn't see Brentford as "the right step for him". Express further claimed that as much as Koln would like to have the additional funds available, "the timing has to be right" so his transfer fee can be reinvested in the team - meaning an exit would need to be arranged within the coming weeks. Fussballdaten , on the other hand, claimed on Saturday that Koln are "firmly convinced that keeping [El Mala]within the core team structure for at least another season would yield significantly higher returns, both on and off the pitch," and are therefore under no pressure to sell except for a fee matching or exceeding the one previously agreed with Brentford. Intriguingly, given this report was published before Diomande's preference for PSG was made public, the article went on to say that Liverpool "plan to officially approach El Mala depending on the progress of their primary transfer targets." It continued: "Particularly in the event of potential difficulties or a stall in the Diomande transfer, there is strong speculation that the Merseyside club could knock on Cologne's door and provide a substantial budget for the young star, whom they consider an important Plan B." El Mala is certainly an exciting talent. Capable of playing up front or out on the left flank, he is a completely different type of winger to Diomande but has offered more of a consistent box threat in his time at Koln so far. Newcastle have also been linked with El Mala as a replacement for Anthony Gordon , which - in this writer's view - makes it practically a guarantee that Liverpool will sign him. You heard it here first! Moroccan midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi continues to be linked with a move to Liverpool - and just about every other top club in Europe, for that matter. According to Spanish publication Diario AS , offers arriving for Bouaddi are "incessant" and a "war between Europe's biggest clubs" is expected as teams scrap for the 18-year-old prodigy's signature. AS claim that PSG, Manchester City , Arsenal and Bayern are all in the mix along with the Reds for the €80m-rated talent, but that "it can't be ruled out that Lille will prolong the negotiations and wait another year to sell him to drive up his price." French outlet RMC Sport have thrown Manchester United 's name into the mix, too, but rule out a move from PSG. TEAMtalk seem to think otherwise - according to that report, PSG "believe they are well-placed in the race" for Bouaddi. Both of these can't be right! Meanwhile, if Matteo Moretto at Marca is to be believed, City are "very interested" and the furthest along in the hunt. Moretto claimed "direct contacts have already taken place with Lille" from the blue half of Manchester. Bouaddi is clearly a player of high potential, but it would be unlike Liverpool to get involved in a bidding war on this scale, if this is indeed the only way home with this potential transfer. Daily Mail reporter Tom Collomosse revealed on Friday that Nottingham Forest are "considering" Curtis Jones after agreeing the club record sale of Elliot Anderson to Man City for £116m. Jones has been linked with a move to Inter since January, and the Italian side saw a £21m bid rejected earlier in the summer. While Jones is open to a move in search of more game time, Liverpool are unwilling to consider offers below £35m, with the club seemingly prepared to keep Jones for the final year of his contract if their demands are not met. The obvious issue for Forest is that they are nowhere near as attractive a prospect as Inter. Collomosse wrote: "The one issue is whether Jones, having been a useful but never a crucial player for his boyhood team, would be keen to join what he might deem a lower-ranked club." One would imagine this is likely to be a fairly significant stumbling block in any potential deal. Jones, for all his reported desire to be "the main man", is a boyhood Red and would presumably be unlikely to give up the chance to win trophies for Liverpool in favour of joining a club that were threatened by relegation last season. Joining Inter, the Serie A champions and serial Champions League finalists, is one thing, but making the 100-mile one-way trip to Nottingham might not be quite so appealing for the double Premier League winner. Reliable journalist Ben Jacobs told The Redmen TV on Friday that Liverpool were one of the clubs to make an "initial inquiry on the player's side" for Newcastle United midfielder Bruno Guimaraes, who has been strongly linked with a move to Arsenal this summer. "Liverpool just did what Manchester United did months back," Jacobs said, "they spoke with the agent and that was it. So I'm not aware that they're progressing there either. "And it wouldn't surprise me if they want a younger kind of profile. Plus, let's not forget that Newcastle United don't want to sell. If you cast your eye back to the summer when they were really doing their big midfield revamp before they got the names in, Liverpool were obviously the ones bidding for Moises Caicedo along with Chelsea . "They were trying for Romeo Lavia along with Chelsea and who knows what will happen with Romeo Lavia, but I don't think Liverpool will be back there." At 28, Guimaraes would represent something of a risk. He has played a high-intensity brand of football at Newcastle since joining four years ago and while he has been influential with his rare combination of Brazilian flair and dogged aggression, he has never been the quickest player and Liverpool have seen with Fabinho and Alexis Mac Allister how quickly things can start to go wrong when a player's physicality fails them. In Iraola's system, even more physical demands will be placed on the central midfielders and there is no guarantee Guimaraes would be able to adapt to this - though his talent is unquestionable. It certainly is intriguing, though, that Liverpool sounded out a potential move with the player - but it sounds as if that's as far as it went. Liverpool have reportedly told Federico Chiesa to find a new club, according to Football Insider writer Wayne Veysey. The report claimed that Liverpool will consider offers between £10-15m, with the club's planned moves in wide areas making the Italy international redundant. Calciomercato have reported that three clubs are interested - Inter, Napoli and Juventus - but that Chiesa wants to try and prove his worth in pre-season first. Tommy Elphick and Shaun Cooper have agreed termination deals from Bournemouth and will now join Andoni Iraola's staff at Liverpool, Sky Sports report. An agreement was due to be signed over the weekend so confirmation from the club could be just around the corner. According to football agent David Lavelle, Alisson had already reached an agreement on personal terms with Juventus prior to Liverpool rejecting the Bianconeri's "brazen" €7m offer. Lavelle told Oggi Sport Notizie he suspects that Iraola will want to assess his current squad options, while the "need for a more senior player in the dressing room" may have been decisive in Liverpool's decision to retain their No. 1 keeper. Jarell Quansah has told BBC Football Daily that he could be "anywhere in the next two years" amid speculation over whether Liverpool will look to resign the defender, who was allowed to join Bayer Leverkusen subject to a buy-back clause last summer. Quansah said : "I've just got to think about how I can affect the now and be the best version of myself right now, and that's all I can do." And Crystal Palace are "monitoring" Harvey Elliott , according to Sky Sports . The boyhood Liverpool fan will be given the opportunity to impress Iraola as part of Liverpool's pre-season preparations after a disastrous loan move to Aston Villa saw him effectively miss a year of first-team football, having initially expected to join the Birmingham side permanently in a loan-to-buy agreement that failed to come to pass after appearance conditions were not met. Over to Liverpool legend, Robbie Fowler , for this one... The reaction in Fowler's replies speaks for itself. Pulisic was, at one time, a rumoured target for Liverpool, but he failed to live up to his potential over four years at Chelsea. While he has become an important player for AC Milan and remains so for the USMNT, Pulisic is now 27 years old and is unlikely to reach the levels expected of a starting forward for Liverpool. This take might be the word of God, but we hope Richard Hughes won't take it as a commandment. FOLLOW OUR LIVERPOOL FC FACEBOOK PAGE! All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook page

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