Liverpool are prepared to spend big in the upcoming window. The club are preparing to have their most expensive transfer window in their history. However, they are still not willing to pay over the odds for any player as per the club’s principle.
The Merseyside giants have spent big money on players, but they have been more judicious about their spending than some of their Premier League rivals.
The money spent on Virgil van Dijk seems cheap given what he has achieved at Anfield. However, on the flip side, Darwin Nunez’s price tag seems like a colossus waste of money, with him likely to move on in the summer.
Liverpool are still prepared to break their transfer records for certain players, but it has been claimed the club are unlikely to again pay through the roof for individuals who they think are not worth it.
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Price tag deemed ‘outrageous’ for Reds target
Alexander Isak is the striker Liverpool want, but the Reds are keeping tabs on other forwards, and Eintracht Frankfurt’s Hugo Ekitike is a target.
The Frenchman has been in stellar form this season and is wanted at several other Premier League clubs ahead of the summer transfer window.
However, it emerged recently that Eintracht Frankfurt are now poised to demand a fee of €100m before agreeing to sell Ekitike in the summer.
Liverpool reporter David Lynch feels the price tag is outrageous, and he is not hearing anything to suggest the Reds are clamouring to sign Ekitike this summer.
“In terms of progressing with it, I’m getting increasingly sceptical with this,” Lynch told Anfield Index’s Media Matters podcast.
“That price tag is outrageous for someone as raw as he seems. To go from Nunez to him… it would feel a little bit like going out of the frying pan and into the fire. Still seems to me to be rough edges.
“But also, the thing that’s making me sceptical is that I haven’t really been given any encouragement on the name from the Liverpool side as someone that’s been talked about a lot on the training ground or someone they’re raving about.”
Liverpool are only likely to shatter their transfer record for a striker if Alexander Isak becomes available in the summer.
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