Liverpool have been given a ‘clear path’ to sign RB Leipzig star Castello Lukeba this summer as Chelsea ‘hold the best cards’ in a battle for Arne Slot’s ‘next big target
Donning chief Richard Hughes isn’t squandering any time this summer in a offered to support Liverpool’s title-winning squad, and with Jeremie Frimpong as of now marked as Trent Alexander-Arnold’s substitution and a bargain for Florian Wirtz at an progressed arrange, it’s claimed the Reds are fascinated by marking a third player from the Bundesliga.
Football Insider claim Lukeba ‘could be on his way to Liverpool this summer after RB Leipzig’s season finished in disappointment’.
Leipzig fizzled to qualify for the Champions Alliance, and in the midst of questions over the prospects of Xavi Simons and Benjamin Sesko, both of whom have too been intensely connected with a move to the Head Alliance, Liverpool included, they may moreover battle to keep hold of Lukeba.
The 22-year-old, who moved to Leipzig from Lyon for £26m within the summer of 2023, is beneath contract until 2029, but that bargain incorporates a £74m discharge clause which Liverpool are enticed to trigger.
The report states that ‘Leipzig’s disappointment to qualify for European football another term opens the entryway for interested clubs to supply Lukeba with that following step, and it’s cleared out Liverpool on tall alert’.
Writer Pete O’Rourke told Football Insider:
“Lukeba is on the list… he’s truly upgraded his solid notoriety since moving to RB Leipzig a handful of seasons ago.
“He’s beneath contract until 2029 and contains a £74million discharge clause, but Leipzig haven’t qualified for European football another season so lost Europe may offer assistance to encourage a deal.”
It would be the same move that individual centre-back Ibrahima Konate made in 2021, and there’s a chance Lukeba may well be a substitution for Konate, with no advance made on an expansion to his contract which terminates in 2026 in the midst of solid intrigued from Real Madrid.
A report on Thursday claimed that Madrid have ‘promised’ modern supervisor Xabi Alonso that they will make a thrust for Konate on the off chance that they oversee to push David Alaba from the club this summer
That gossip comes in the midst of reports that Liverpool are currently behind Chelsea within the race for another Bundesliga star, Frankfurt’s Hugo Ekitike.
Sky Germany correspondent Florian Plettenberg as of late uncovered that Ekitike was Arne Slot’s ‘next enormous target’ at Liverpool as they endeavor to arrive a productive striker.
But Bild columnist Christian Falk demands that Chelsea are as of now ahead of Liverpool within the race as they ‘hold the leading cards in the Ekitike poker’
‘Chelsea hold the advantage over Liverpool for Hugo Ekitiké. Chelsea, Liverpool and Arms stockpile were already considered the beat top picks for Hugo Ekitiké. But the three-man competition has presently turned into a two-club fight.
‘At the minute, Chelsea, who qualified for the Champions Association in fourth put, hold the most excellent cards within the Ekitiké poker. Chelsea are as of now in discourse with the player’s side and seem before long get genuine. But Liverpool are moreover still within the race, in spite of the up and coming record exchange of Florian Wirtz.
‘The Mainz striker is presently clearly inclining towards a move to Frankfurt and needs to play for the Hessians after the summer. A monetary understanding has not however been come to. In any case, the essential choice in support of Eintracht appears to have been made.
‘Burkardt’s inescapable flight is as of now known within the Mainz dressing room. Leverkusen are moreover fascinated by the universal striker, who scored 18 association objectives final season. But Eintracht driven the Burkardt race from the begin