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This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement.<\/em><\/p>\n Liverpool believe that finding common ground on the transfer fee with RB Leipzig is the only obstacle remaining to signing Yan Diomande this summer, according to reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n TEAMtalk<\/em> claim that the Reds are \u201cconfident\u201d of agreeing personal terms with the 19-year-old, having also received assurances that the player is interested in a move to Anfield.<\/p>\n Diomande is said to be \u201cexcited\u201d about the prospect of making the switch to Merseyside, which is not a complete surprise.<\/p>\n A few months ago, he revealed<\/strong> that he is a \u201chuge\u201d fan of the club, so there was never any real doubt that he would be open to the transfer.<\/p>\n Manchester United, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain have also been mentioned as other potential suitors for Diomande.<\/p>\n While you cannot rule out any of these clubs from making their own play, it does seem that Arne Slot\u2019s side have \u201cbuy-in\u201d from the player himself, which holds considerable weight.<\/p>\n Of course, the summer transfer window hasn\u2019t even opened it, so the situation could still change, but it looks like they are in the best position to complete a deal.<\/p>\n Buy a white Liverpool away shirt from Fanatics here<\/p>\n It means that they are not desperate to sell the winger, and there are even suggestions that they will now increase their initial \u20ac100m (\u00a387m) valuation.<\/p>\n You have to believe that some of this is simply posturing as they look to get top dollar for one of their best players, but it does indicate that negotiations for Diomande are going to be very tough.<\/p>\n Want more news on Liverpool? Add Walk On as a preferred source on Google<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","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\/295","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=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Liverpool have the edge over other teams<\/h2>\n
Leipzig are going to make things difficult<\/h2>\n
Diomande\u2019s club are sitting 3rd in the Bundesliga table, and they are five points above 5th with four games to go, which means they will very likely secure Champions League qualification.<\/p>\n