A possible switch of Manu Kone to Liverpool is reportedly ‘not possible’.
This comes courtesy of a tweet from Sky German’s Florian Plettenberg, with the German journalist now claiming that the No.17 merely isn’t a ‘scorching switch goal’ ‘at this stage’.
Information #Koné: Been informed a switch to #LFC could be very unlikely. Sure, he’s on a shortlist due to his attention-grabbing profile however not a scorching switch goal for Liverpool at this stage.
For M‘Gladbach he’s nonetheless a high candidate on the market. However no concrete gives but. @borussia calls for… pic.twitter.com/Bgun99PfK9
— Florian Plettenberg (@Plettigoal) June 10, 2023
The Merseysiders are understood to carry a lot of central midfielders in various states of excessive esteem, together with the likes of Orkun Kokcu (now believed to be Benfica-bound) and Fulham’s Joao Palhinha.
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With Gladbach solely demanding greater than €30m (£25.6m) for the midfielder’s providers this summer season, we discover it very onerous to imagine that Kone isn’t a ‘scorching switch goal’.
Definitely, our understanding right here at Empire of the Kop, is that the participant stays of nice curiosity to the Anfield hierarchy, although the pursuit of compatriot Khephren Thuram is, against this, extra superior.
Bearing that in thoughts, we reckon it may very well be the case that we’re merely trying to finalise a transfer for the latter of the 2 first earlier than going full steam forward to safe the Bundesliga-dwelling star’s signature.
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