With the looming reality of Mohamed Salah\u2019s departure at the end of the season, Liverpool desperately need a blockbuster addition to their frontline. The name sitting at the absolute top of their wishlist is RB Leipzig\u2019s explosive 19-year-old Ivorian sensation, Yan Diomande.<\/p>\n While earlier reports suggested Leipzig were aggressively trying to tie the teenager down to a new contract, a fresh update from Football Insider reveals that the Reds believe they have a massive ace up their sleeve, a a strong, established relationship with the German club.<\/p>\n When it comes to doing business with the Red Bull footballing empire, Liverpool practically have a fast-pass lane.<\/p>\n Over the past several years, the Anfield hierarchy has successfully negotiated massive, high-profile deals for the likes of Dominik Szoboszlai, Ibrahima Konat\u00e9, and Naby Ke\u00efta.<\/p>\n Leipzig are notoriously stubborn negotiators, famously demanding premium fees and refusing to be bullied in the transfer market.<\/p>\n However, because the two clubs share a strong mutual respect and a history of clean, professional transactions without any unnecessary media circus, Liverpool are highly optimistic they can jump straight to the front of the queue and open productive dialogue immediately.<\/p>\n \t\t\t
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The report notes that Liverpool\u2019s primary goal is to get this deal entirely wrapped up early in the summer window.<\/p>\n If Liverpool drag their feet or try to lowball the German side, they risk sparking a massive European bidding war.<\/p>\n The last thing FSG wants is to find themselves in a financial dogfight with deep-pocketed rivals like Chelsea or Manchester City.<\/p>\n Furthermore, securing a marquee attacker before preseason even begins provides a massive morale boost for the squad and allows the managerial team to build their tactical blueprint around him from day one.<\/p>\n Liverpool urged to sacrifice Cody Gakpo in player-plus-cash deal to sign 40-goal monster \u2018at all costs\u2019 <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the looming reality of Mohamed Salah\u2019s departure at the end of the season, Liverpool…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The Egyptian attacker has finally decided to leave the Merseyside club after an illustrious spell at the club which has seen him win all the biggest trophies at Anfield.<\/p>\nLiverpool have done business with Leipzig in the past<\/h2>\n
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\n<\/section>\nReds are hoping to complete the deal early<\/h2>\n