Football transfer rumours: Liverpool to move for Juve’s Federico Chiesa?
Today’s tittle-tattle is toying with your emotions
Having spent all summer toying with the emotions of their more highly-strung fans by refusing to buy any players, Liverpool have finally buckled and splurged £29m on a recruit they don’t actually seem to need. Having completed a deal for the Valencia goalkeeper, Giorgi Mamardashvili, Liverpool immediately loaned the 23-year-old Georgia international back to the Spanish side, and will now focus on signing Federico Chiesa from Juventus. A regular under Max Allegri, the Italian winger has been bombed out of new manager Thiago Motta’s squad and is in the final year of his contract so a relatively modest fee of around £12.5m should be enough for Liverpool to secure his services.
Having spent much of his post-match press conference after Everton’s weekend defeat by Tottenham Hotspur bemoaning the paucity of good strikers on the market, Sean Dyche could lose two of the half-decent ones he already has. Already the subject of interest from Newcastle, who have an injury-prone and unreliable No 9 of their own in Callum Wilson, Dominic Calvert-Lewin is the latest player to be linked with a move to Chelsea. The transfer-mad recruitment department at Stamford Bridge have made no secret of their desire to sign a centre-forward before deadline day and are also sniffing around Brentford’s Ivan Toney, and have been linked with Aston Villa’s Jhon Duran. With Manchester United also believed to be interested in adding Calvert-Lewin to their ranks, Everton are reported to be looking for £35m for the 27-year-old striker who has one year left on his contract, a figure that, whatever way you look at it, seems absurdly high.
