Liverpool need £10m transfer favour from club most unlikely to give them one

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Liverpool have been tipped to sign Romeo Lavia from Southampton this summer as manager Jurgen Klopp looks to bolster his midfield following a dismal season last time out. The Reds are currently said to be unwilling to meet the Saints’ £50million valuation for the ace but could be prepared to do business at £40m. However, Southampton may point blank refuse to do Liverpool a £10m favour as they have already lost a whole host of their players to the Merseyside giants in years gone by.

Liverpool’s midfield came under fire time and time again last season, with Fabinho, Thiago and Jordan Henderson all struggling to hit top form.

Klopp has attempted to solve some of his midfield issues by bringing in Alexis Mac Allister from Brighton and Dominik Szoboszlai from RB Leipzig already this summer. And Lavia could become the third midfield genius Klopp snaps up.

At the start of this week, Football Insider reported that Liverpool are continuing talks with Southampton over the 19-year-old and that they were £10m short of the Saints’ transfer fee demands. And the Hampshire club may see no reason to help out their former Premier League rivals.

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Liverpool have raided Southampton for players on a string of occasions in the past, with the Reds’ record signing Virgil van Dijk moving from St Mary’s Stadium to Anfield for £75m at the start of 2018. The north west club had already taken Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana, Dejan Lovren, Nathaniel Clyne and Sadio Mane away from the Saints in the space of just two years between 2014 and 2016 and even went back in to land Danny Ings in 2019.

Those players were all star names for Southampton and their departures clearly weakened the team. While Southampton were able to keep the flow of aces coming in the door for a period of time, the team ultimately crashed and burned and struggled to compete in the Premier League. And last season they suffered relegation to the Championship after finishing bottom of the top-flight table.

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Football has a funny way of coming back to bite those involved in the game. And Southampton may force Liverpool to stump up the full £50m in exchange for Lavia, who featured 34 times for Southampton last season after joining the club from Manchester City last summer.

After all, Lavia is not short of admirers, with Chelsea are Arsenal also in the mix to sign him. And the Saints will be confident they can get top dollar for him one way or another.

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