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Daily Mirror
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Jonty Colman

Premier League trio ‘in battle’ to sign £16.6m striker Jurgen Klopp sold last summer

Former Liverpool striker Taiwo Awoniyi has been credited with transfer interest from three Premier League clubs less than a year after departing Anfield permanently.

The 24-year-old spent six years on the Reds’ books between 2015 and 2021 after being signed from the Imperial Soccer Academy but did not play a single game for Liverpool, leaving Anfield temporarily on seven different loan spells with FSV Frankfurt, NEC, Mouscron (twice), Gent, Mainz 05 and Union Berlin, the latter of which he joined permanently at the start of the season.

Now, the Nigerian striker has been credited with transfer interest from Newcastle United, West Ham United and Southampton, having scoring 13 times in 27 Bundesliga games for Union this season.

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