Following claims that Liverpool might “intensify” a pursuit of Porto defensive midfielder Alan Varela, senior sources inside the membership have now responded.
After hypothesis a 12 months in the past, whereas Varela was nonetheless at Boca Juniors, it was claimed in April that “formal talks” had taken place over a switch.
These reviews got here from the midfielder’s native Argentina, whereas this week noticed additional claims from Spain, through South American journalist Eduardo Burgos.
El Liverpool intensifica los contactos por Alan Varela, uno de los objetivos para el verano.
Su cláusula es de 70M y Boca tiene un % de venta del jugador. Se espera que pronto abran negociaciones con el Porto para su traspaso.
Irá a los Juegos Olímpicos de París con Argentina. pic.twitter.com/39fJNCslqD
— Eduardo Burgos (@edu17burgos) May 31, 2024
Burgos wrote on Twitter that Liverpool had been set to “intensify contact” for Varela, including that “it’s anticipated that they’ll quickly open negotiations with Porto for his switch.”
The pure No. 6 is reported to have been watched by membership scouts on quite a lot of events, and is on the market for round £60 million as a result of a launch clause in his contract.
However per the Liverpool Echo‘s Paul Gorst, these inside the Anfield hierarchy are baffled by ongoing claims of curiosity in Varela.
“Senior figures have dismissed real curiosity and consider the 22-year-old’s agent to be the supply of the reviews out of South America,” Gorst writes.
Whereas on paper Varela might have crammed an apparent void within the squad Arne Slot has inherited, it’s maybe no shock that these reviews have been given quick shrift by Liverpool.
He’s removed from the primary such midfielder to have been touted to the Reds in current switch home windows, with Manuel Ugarte, Joao Palhinha and Manu Kone additionally on that checklist.
There’s but to be any indication how Liverpool will strategy recruitment as a brand new setup takes form, although plans are being helmed by sporting director Richard Hughes, relatively than Slot himself.
That would forged the web wider than below the earlier regime, with more moderen arrivals dictated by Jurgen Klopp and his teaching workers themselves.
Portugal had been thought of a daily supply of targets together with Darwin Nunez and Luis Diaz, however maybe Gorst’s replace on Varela is proof that it will now change.
