Liverpool’s bid to sign 25% of the world’s midfielders continues apace and the latest to come into the crosshairs – for a second time we think, it’s hard to keep track – is Real Madrid’s Fede Valverde. Perhaps miffed by losing out on Jude Bellingham, the Reds seemed determined to land one of Madrid’s other central players as revenge and have already been sniffing around Frenchman Aurélien Tchouaméni this summer.
Jürgen Klopp has now turned his attention to Uruguay’s Valverde, and reports in Spain have come up with £77m from their random transfer figure number generator. Watch this space, and then watch other spaces as Liverpool turn next to Roméo Lavia from Southampton and Bayern Munich’s Ryan Gravenberch.
