Liverpool remain in “daily conversation” with PSG to finalise a deal to sign Bradley Barcola this summer.
Fabrizio Romano reports on X (formerly Twitter) that the Reds even spoke to the French champions as recently as Thursday.
Personal terms have already been agreed with the player.
Liverpool are not walking away from Bradley Barcola
There were disturbing reports that Liverpool would be prepared to step away from talks with PSG (The Standard via CaughtOffside).
Ultimately, everything will hinge on the Parisians’ stance softening in the coming days and, if need be, weeks, given the Reds are unprepared to match the £145m price tag on the table.
However, given the consistency of talks, one might reasonably assume that a compromise is up for grabs.
“Don’t forget that Liverpool remain in daily conversation with PSG for Bradley Barcola,” Romano spoke on the Here We Go Podcast on YouTube.
“Liverpool have an agreement with Barcola on personal terms (verbal agreement). Barcola wants to go to Liverpool. Barcola has never been untouchable.
“Liverpool are ready to go strong for Bradley Barcola.”
Romano went on to add: “Now it depends on the financial agreement. But even on Thursday, contacts took place between PSG and Liverpool. So, the deal is on.”
So… no sign of Liverpool being prepared to walk away just yet. Of course, just how much Luis Enrique’s men are willing to compromise remains to be seen.
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But we would hasten to remind our readers that Barcola has just under two years remaining on his deal at PSG. And with minutes likely to be curtailed by the impending arrival of Ferran Torres (and, perhaps, Mika Godts), it’s difficult to see the Ligue 1 giants maintaining his value over the course of a season.
Liverpool playing very risky, patient game with PSG
The timing around this prospective deal seems intrinsically tied to PSG’s efforts to bring both Torres and Godts on board.
Two deals that would likely signal the end of both Bradley Barcola’s and Ibrahim Mbaye’s respective time in the French capital.
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How comfortable are we with this strategy? Not particularly, seeing as it also means we’re gambling on the squad’s health nine days away from our first competitive clash against Newcastle in the Premier League.
Even if we’re magically able to seal deals for the two PSG wingers and address deficiencies elsewhere in the squad (chiefly at centre-forward, holding six, and right-back), we’re already accepting that new signings will need time to bed in outside of pre-season.
It’s pretty poor from our recruitment team – especially when we’ve committed to a manager who clearly needs a multitude of bodies available to play his system.
Yet, here we are, and the clock is ticking.
Given that Trabzonspor are apparently willing to pay £200m for a great player past his best and another of mixed fortunes it seems pretty myopic for LFC to walk away from two potentially world class players, with many years ahead of them, for the same amount..
It makes sense to walk away from a player who can’t get into his club sides first team. Now if we were looking to pay that for Kvaratskelia or Doue or Yamal I could understand it, but Barcola has shown nothing but pace. Essentially he’s no different to Mudryk
If lfc say they want to buy yamal or haaland or saka or cubarsi,bastoni i will understand,buy camara and guela doue,rayan and minteh, four left wingers and still looking for left wingers
I say walk away. Barcola’s just too expensive, not worth that kind of money. Ive always said that Rayan would be a better fit as he’s naturally right-sided, knows the Premiership and has worked under Iraola. No brainer if you ask me.
Looks like the only club not interested in Barcola is PSG/maybe LFC Hughes and co should be asking why? YNWA
If i am hughes i will buy rayan,minteh,guela doue and ezri konsa and alex scott and camara. Rio need a patners to help him like rayan and minteh.minteh he is still developing
Where is all the money coming from for these players?
Let’s get our prodigal son Alexander Arnold back from Madrid , give them back their £10 million they conned us , just regard his wages paid by Real as running costs as one does when hiring a car , his set piece skills have been sorely missed , he’s still got the skills to be a valuable asset to the red men make no mistake.
Agree though he needs strong runners up front to run onto his long balls.. Barcola would be great, Munoz TBD but Isak and Ekitike aren’t chasers.. But Darwin is!!