Several Liverpool fans online were left somewhat disappointed by the club’s transfer window, despite having made four senior additions to the team, in light of a failed attempt to secure another mid-park permanent.
Curiously, however, it seems that a bid for Aurelien Tchouameni this summer was followed by genuine offers for Jude Bellingham (not just an enquiry, as was initially understood) and Federico Valverde from Real Madrid, all worth a combined £240m in offers. according to Guardian journalist Artur Petrosyan on Twitter.
Liverpool have apparently made three significant offers for midfielders this summer: Tchouameni (£68m), Bellingham (£86m) and Valverde (£86m) in chronological order.
And all of them failed.
– Artur Petrosyan (@arturpetrosyan) September 13, 2022
As it turned out, all attempts failed to produce the desired result with the Frenchman opting for a move to Real Madrid despite Jurgen Klopp’s best efforts to convince the former Monaco star otherwise.
It shows a clear signal of our recruiting team’s intent to bring in a quality midfield option with all three players aged 24 and under.
Given how close we came to a historic quadruple haul of trophies last year, it seems somewhat remarkable that we failed to bring at least one of the three to Anfield.
That said, it’s worth noting beyond Tchouameni that we were unlucky enough to move to Bellingham in the same summer, point man Erling Haaland swapped Germany for England.
A long-term deal that ties Valverde to the Spanish capital until 2027 will also have complicated things a bit for Liverpool in the window that just passed.
