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Liverpool are closing in on winning a Premier League title, but the summer transfer window is promising to be even more exciting for the fans. The club have big plans for the upcoming months as Arne Slot pushes ot bring in several reinforcements. However, the transfer saga surrounding one of their top targets is promising to be intriguing.
Slot wants to radically reconfigure the Liverpool attack next season with players such as Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz and Diogo Jota expected to make way for younger replacements.
The Liverpool manager also wants to add a top-class attacking midfielder to his squad, which has put the futures of Harvey Elliott and Dominik Szoboszlai under the scanner.
Liverpool are considering players such as Crystal Palace’s Eberechi Eze, but their top target is considered the best number 10 in the world. However, the saga involving him is expected to fill up many column inches.
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Club CEO talks finances for top target
Bayer Leverkusen star Florian Wirtz is expected to spark an arms race for his signature in the summer with Liverpool, Manchester City and Real Madrid chasing him.
However, Bayern Munich are the ones who seem desperate to get their hands on him and are prepared to go into debt to finance a move for Wirtz in the next window.
Bayer Leverkusen want a fee of £130m, and coupled with the German’s wage demands, the whole package is expected to be eye-wateringly expensive.
However, Bayern Munich CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen has claimed that the German giants have enough money in the locker to sign their top targets in the summer.
“There is enough money”, Dreesen was quoted as saying by Fussball Transfers.
“And it will be enough for whoever it might be.”
Wirtz has yet to decide whether he wants to leave Leverkusen, and there is a chance he might spend one more season at the club.
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