With Liverpool having already signed Newcastle-targeted striker Hugo Ekitike and pushing onerous to steal celebrity Alexander Isak away from the Magpies so as to add harm to insult, it may very well be the north-east membership will look to get one over on the Reds at one other place.
That’s as a result of the most recent, care of The Instances, has Newcastle concentrating on Crystal Palace centre half Marc Guéhi, lengthy rumoured to be Liverpool’s prime centre half goal in a summer season that sees the Reds down to a few senior centre halves after transport Jarell Quansah to Bayer Leverkusen.
The excellent news for Liverpool is even when Newcastle do need Guéhi, identical to the Reds they’re mentioned to be postpone by Palace’s £50M valuation. It’s mentioned they’d be snug paying £40M for the 25-year-old England worldwide—however that’s a price Liverpool are additionally believed prepared to pay.
In a straight battle, one would slightly think about Liverpool can be the extra interesting vacation spot, and likewise probably prepared to pay the next wage. Nevertheless, Newcastle would supply Guéhi a a lot clearer path to assured taking part in time in what can be a World Cup season.
At Liverpool, Guéhi can be preventing Ibrahima Konaté to accomplice with Virgil van Dijk. At Newcastle, he can be first selection. For Liverpool, too, it’s maybe value noting that as a lot as they do have to signal a centre half, there are different believable targets for the function they should fill.
Guéhi’s principal enchantment as probably third-choice centre half for the Reds can be his homegrown standing. In the meantime, striker Alexander Isak is at worst the second finest striker within the Premier League behind Manchester Metropolis’s Erling Haaland and one of many prime 5 at his place in Europe.
It is going to be attention-grabbing, although, to see the way it all performs out over the ultimate month of the summer season switch window, with Liverpool having stollen Newcastle’s prime striker goal and pushing to signal to signal their present prime striker—and now each golf equipment seemingly wanting Guéhi.