A distinguished determine at a European membership has claimed that one Liverpool participant would ‘actually like’ one other transfer away from Anfield earlier than the summer time switch window closes.
As famous by James Pearce for The Athletic, Sepp van den Berg has been excelling for the Reds in pre-season and attracting loads of curiosity from Europe, with bids from Mainz, Wolfsburg and PSV Eindhoven having already been rejected for the £20m-valued defender.
The previous’s director of sport Christian Heidel has mentioned that he’d wish to have the 22-year-old again on mortgage for a second successive marketing campaign, however conceded that LFC’s valuation has priced Die Nullfunfer out of a everlasting transfer for the Dutchman.
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The Mainz chief mentioned (as relayed by Florian Plettenberg by way of X): “We wish him to remain and Sepp would additionally actually love to do it, however we additionally respect that Liverpool haven’t determined about it but. We won’t purchase a participant for over £20m, which is what Liverpool need. Our membership can not do this.”
🔴 Mainz Boss Christian Heidel about Sepp van den Berg at this time:
“We wish him to remain and Sepp would additionally actually love to do it. However we additionally respect that Liverpool haven’t determined about it but.”
Mainz are hoping for an additional mortgage deal, whereas Heidel guidelines out a everlasting… pic.twitter.com/LaR0S9G0oX
— Florian Plettenberg (@Plettigoal) August 2, 2024
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Barring a disaster over the subsequent week or so, Van den Berg will emerge as one of many large winners from Liverpool’s pre-season programme.
His future on the membership seemed bleak simply a few months in the past after an interview in his native Netherlands by which he complained at being priced out of an exit from Anfield. He extra lately expressed shock at his £20m valuation, however in a tone which instructed that he considered it as a praise.
The 22-year-old has gained loads of reward for his efforts in coaching and his performances in opposition to Actual Betis and Arsenal, however with Ibrahima Konate now again from his post-Euro 2024 break and Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez set to return imminently, competitors for centre-back locations will intensify considerably.
Nonetheless, with some doubts rising over the Englishman’s future this week after experiences that Liverpool had agreed a £45m sale to Newcastle in June (which ultimately collapsed), the Reds are unlikely to half with each him and Van den Berg.
The Dutchman will virtually actually get a greater thought over the subsequent two weeks as to the place he stands in Arne Slot’s pecking order. If he’s made to really feel valued by the brand new head coach and senses that he’ll get alternatives at Anfield, he may properly keep put regardless of the widespread curiosity from elsewhere.
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