Liverpool will not be acquiring young French forward Moussa Dembele in the January transfer window, despite our reported interest in the 20-year-old…
That’s according to our former manager Brendan Rodgers, who now takes charge of Dembele for Celtic in the Scottish Premier League.
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Already this term in all competitions the youngster has bagged 17 goals and is keeping Leigh Griffiths, who notched 40 last term, out of the side.
“No, I don’t think he will [leave],” Rodgers told talkSPORT, cited in the Echo.
“At Celtic, you know how it is. We know how it is. If we get a really talented player there’s probably a cycle of a couple of years with them.
“You look at (Victor) Wanyama, Virgil van Dijk, Ki (Sung-yueng) – they come up here and it’s a great platform for them to demonstrate their qualities but then the likelihood is they get a better offer, financially, and they move down south.
“With Moussa, I think that was always going to be the case.”
Dembele is mighty talented and will no doubt leave Celtic at some point, but a young striker in need of minutes is hardly what we need right now.
We have Divock Origi, who’s only just got himself in the side due to team-mate injuries, scoring three goals in three appearances. Roberto Firmino and Daniel Sturridge can play centrally, while Danny Ings is also contracted (although a season ending injury ruins his chances of being involved before 2017/18).
If Dembele were to join, his progression would stunt as he’d likely be down the pecking order.