Liverpool transfer news: Billy Koumetio discussions ongoing with Dundee United

Liverpool are in discussions with Dundee United over their French centre back Billy Koumetio. 

That’s according to journalist Marc Mechenoua of Le Parisien, with Koumetio seemingly set for the Anfield exit door. 

The France under-20 defender has appeared twice for the Liverpool first team but appears a long way down the pecking order. 

It was reported earlier this summer that Koumetio along with Rhys Williams were excluded from Liverpool’s first-team pre-season plans amid speculations that they would be part of the Merseyside clearout this summer. 

Koumetio, 21, has been with the Reds since 2018 and first made the senior team bench aged only 16 but his first professional contract which was signed in 2021 expires in 2025. 

Therefore Liverpool could opt to move him on this summer in order to bank a fee instead of losing him on a free next summer. 

Having played in Lyon’s youth ranks, Koumetio then moved to US Orleans, where he was recruited by Liverpool. 

He has had loan spells at Austria Vienna and Dunkerque which were curtailed early and spent the second half of last season on loan at Championship side Blackburn Rovers, only appearing once. 

Now Koumetio’s time could well be at an end with the 6’5 defender subject to interest from north of the border. 

Liverpool open to offers

Newly-promoted Dundee United are seeking to construct a competitive squad and according to Le Parisien they are locked in talks over Koumetio’s arrival. 

“Billy Koumetio, Liverpool's French defender, has interest from Dundee United in Scotland. Discussions in progress,” wrote Mechenoua on social media site X, formerly Twitter. 

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Koumetio’s two appearances in the Liverpool first team came against Midtjylland in the Champions League back in 2020 and in the EFL Cup against Leicester in 2021. 

He is one of a number of fringe players who could find themselves pushed out of Anfield this summer with the Reds open to offers for Tyler Morton, Sepp van den Berg and Caoimhin Kelleher.