Liverpool are eyeing a £40million double raid on the Bundesliga in January, while Arsenal are in danger of losing star man Alexis Sanchez to a Premier League rival, according to Sunday’s newspapers. Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp will move for Borussia Monchengladbach’s £25m-rated midfielder Mahmoud Dahoud when the transfer window opens in January, reports the Sunday Express. The paper claims Klopp had his scouts check out on the player during their Champions League hammering at Manchester City on Wednesday.
Dahoud, who was a summer transfer target for the Reds, was on the receiving end of a 4-0 defeat to Pep Guardiola’s side in the Champions League with Sergio Aguero scoring a hat-trick and Kelechi Iheanacho completing the rout. Klopp is understood to be plotting a £25million bid for the 20-year-old German under-21 international when the transfer window opens in January. The Reds were keen on securing a deal for Dahoud in the summer but were forced to abandon their move with the Bundesliga outfit determined to keep hold of their talisman.
However, it is claimed Dahoud, whose deal at Gladbach ends in 2018, is refusing to sign new contract. He has a release clause of £8.3m, which can be triggered in 2017, but Liverpool are hoping to beat the likes of Juventus to the punch by making a £25million bid in January. Meanwhile, the Reds are also reportedly stepping up their attempts to land Borussia Dortmund’s USA teenager Christian Pulisic for £15million. The 17-year-old USA midfielder is one of the most highly-rated prospects in world football and played the entire 90 minutes of Dortmund’s 6-0 win away to Legia Warsaw on Wednesday night.
Despite becoming a regular for Dortmund,The Sun on Sunday believes the Reds still hope to do a deal with Dortmund for the player after having an £11million approach rejected in the summer. Any deal for the player could become more complicated by the fact that the player recently admitted his love for their fierce rivals Manchester United.
Manchester City are ready to make a January move for Chile international Alexis Sanchez – if he fails to agree a new deal with Arsenal. That is according to an exclusive in theSunday Express, despite plenty being written recently about City’s interest in the player. Sanchez is out of contract with the Gunners in June 2018 and is set to be offered a new deal by Arsene Wenger who is desperate to keep him at the Emirates Stadium. The former Barcelona man wants around £200,000 a week to commit his future to the club which would make him their highest earner.
He also wants to see evidence that the Gunners are going to mount a serious challenge for major honours this season and in the future before he agrees to put pen to paper. While Sanchez’s advisors will also demand that the new deal has a release clause written into it something which the Gunners might not be happy doing. City would have no problems in meeting the financial demands and career ambitions of Sanchez who is also a target for Italian giants Juventus. And they are waiting in the wings to make a move for him when the transfer window opens in the New Year if they get any signal that he is wavering from signing a contract.
