As per an replace from Fabrizio Romano on Wednesday afternoon, Liverpool have sanctioned one other participant’s exit from Anfield.
Per week after Fabio Carvalho accomplished a £27.5m transfer to Brentford, the Reds may very well be about to strike the same deal for an additional standout pre-season performer in Sepp van den Berg.
Taking to X at present, the Italian switch reporter posted: “Liverpool will obtain £20m plus £5m add-ons for Sepp van den Berg, inexperienced gentle to each Brentford and Bayer Leverkusen. Dutch defender will determine between the 2 golf equipment quickly after talking to Xabi Alonso and Thomas Frank.”
🔴🇳🇱 Liverpool will obtain £20m plus £5m add-ons for Sepp van der Berg, inexperienced gentle to each Brentford and Bayer Leverkusen.
Dutch defender will determine between the 2 golf equipment quickly after talking to Xabi Alonso and Thomas Frank. pic.twitter.com/QtfKZjvbIV
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 21, 2024
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It now appears inevitable that Van den Berg will go away and that it’s merely a matter of him deciding whether or not to stay within the Premier League and rapidly reunite with Carvalho in west London, or have a crack on the Champions League with the Bundesliga title holders.
Amid ongoing uncertainty over Joe Gomez’s future, there’s a threat that Liverpool may very well be leaving themselves gentle within the centre-back division after they half with the Dutchman. Rhys Williams has additionally gone out on mortgage, whereas Nat Phillips appears set to stay on the periphery till such time that he secures a everlasting exit.
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It appears stunning that, in such circumstances, the Reds would log out on the seemingly imminent departure of the 22-year-old, particularly after he carried out to such a excessive customary on the pre-season tour to USA and in the course of the first fortnight again on the AXA Coaching Centre final month.
Nonetheless, few golf equipment can rival LFC in terms of sensing the suitable time to money in on youthful/fringe gamers. The charges acquired for the likes of Jordon Ibe (£15m), Harry Wilson (£12m) and Rhian Brewster (£23.5m) up to now all seem like masterstrokes now, and £25m can be a beneficiant quantity to reap for Van den Berg, who for all his expertise has performed simply 4 senior aggressive matches for us.
It seems that Richard Hughes merely couldn’t say no to the gives for the lightning-quick defender, who final season clocked a prime velocity of 34.78 km per hour on mortgage at Mainz (Every day Mail), and it’s now as much as the participant to determine whether or not London or Leverkusen will likely be his subsequent port of name.
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