Liverpool have a ‘financial advantage’ over Juventus in the race to sign Youri Tielemans from Leicester City, according to Corriere dello Sport.
Currently at the European Championships with Belgium, Tielemans is the subject of much media speculation and Liverpool have been heavily linked with a move for the former AS Monaco midfielder.
He’s incredibly talented and has the ability to win games with a moment of magic which Chelsea learnt the hard way, succumbing to a 1-0 loss in the FA Cup final thanks to a thunderbolt from the blue.
The modern game has developed in such a way that long-range goals like his at Wembley have become a rarity but he is one of the few players in the Premier League with that in his locker.
LONDON, ENGLAND – MAY 15: Youri Tielemans of Leicester City scores their side’s first goal during The Emirates FA Cup Final match between Chelsea and Leicester City at Wembley Stadium on May 15, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth – Pool/Getty Images)
Sport Witness cites Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport as reporting that Liverpool have a ‘financial advantage’ over Juventus in the race to sign Tielemans this summer.
The Serie A behemoths are interested in signing the 24-year-old but are reportedly not on the same financial playing field, with Juve reportedly “at a slight disadvantage, such is the financial difference available to the two sides.”
It’s true that Liverpool have greater financial strength but it’s not likely to be a weapon that Jurgen Klopp wields with impunity as the German rarely spends big as we have seen over the last few years.
Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker are Liverpool’s only true marquee signings and they only arrived after the club generated over £105million from selling Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona in 2018.
MONACO, MONACO – AUGUST 29: Virgil van Dijk(L) alongside Alisson Becker.(Photo by Harold Cunningham – UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images)
I would absolutely love to see Tielemans at Liverpool but I simply cannot see them paying the €70m asking price that Leicester will reportedly demand. He’s good but he’s not that good.
That kind of transfer fee is reserved for players that Klopp believes that cannot be found elsewhere like van Dijk, who is one of a kind.
Kylian Mbappe is the kind of player that Liverpool are prepared to break the bank for but only because he’s a generational talent with virtually no equal in his age bracket.
Erling Haaland is the only player below 22 that is posting the kind of numbers that the French forward is, with both young forwards directly involved in 53 club goals this season.
