Today’s fluff is talking to itself at night because it can’t forget
Those canny folk at RB Leipzig have learned their lesson from a summer of wild haggling with Liverpool’s transfer-negotiating team over Naby Keïta – which ended with the English club agreeing to pay the midfielder’s release clause in full with an additional extra bonus for being nice. Thus they have reacted speedily to rumours that Liverpool are now interested in their French defender Dayot Upamecano – by offering the 18-year-old a new contract with an eye-watering €100m buy-out option, and then gathering to celebrate their own ingenuity in a shadowy basement bar heated entirely by the friction caused by rubbing their hands together and the hot air released as they discuss what to do with their next Premier League-related windfall.
A host of Premier League clubs queueing up for a chance to seduce Schalke’s Leon Goretzka are about to be seriously disappointed, as Barcelona prepare to barge, elbows flailing, to the front of the line. The midfielder’s contract in Germany ends next summer, and Mundo Deportivo winningly describe the wild transfer frenzy that is resulting as “un bingo espactacular” for the 22-year-old. On Thursday Bild suggested the player intends to move either to Bayern Munich or Barça, and a day on we hear that to guarantee sealing the deal Barcelona are not going to hang around until next July, but will offer €10-€15m to sign Goretzka in January. They will clear space in their midfield ranks by shifting out Arda Turan, André Gomes and Rafinha.
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