Liverpool given GREEN LIGHT on €50m Luis Diaz replacement

Liverpool’s winger search has taken them across the entirety of Europe’s best leagues and beyond.

But that’s what is necessary when you have to potentially replace Mo Salah AND Luis Diaz in the same summer. Between an expiring contract and a player disgruntled with his salary, Liverpool face an attacking crisis.

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One player that they have an established interest in is Borussia Dortmund’s English starlet Jamie Gittens.

Sky Germany’s report that Gittens views a return to England as his long-term goal, as well as some Premier League teams enquiring as to his status, has understandably pricked the ears of Liverpool fans.

They will, naturally, face serious competition for his signature. Not just from other Premier League sides but also some of the world’s best.

Florian Plettenberg on Twitter is reporting that Gittens is a high priority for Bayern Munich this coming summer.

Liverpool face serious competition for Jamie Gittens

He says that Bayern manager Vincent Kompany is “raving about him internally”, but that “a winter transfer is not an option for the player”.

As a result, everything hinges on the summer and whether Gittens “formally expressed a desire to leave” Dortmund and if a side send a serious offer.

Gittens would be a very exciting prospect for Liverpool. He has nine goals and four assists in all competitions this season so far, representing a seismic rise from his 10 goal involvements in the entirety of last season.

At just 20-years old he would also be a serious investment for the future at the club. Salah is 32 and on the last year of his contract as established, whilst Diaz will soon turn 28 and may want out of the club regardless.

This feels like one that Liverpool shouldn’t overthink. Transfermarkt currently value Gittens at €50m (around £41.5m). If they were to sell Diaz it almost certainly wouldn’t come at less than this and the re-investment of funds could repay the club in its entirety.

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