Liverpool is going to win the Premier League this season but Arne Slot won’t be collecting a double. The Reds, already out of the FA Cup and the Champions League, deservedly lost the Carabao Cup final to Newcastle.
When the summer comes, Liverpool will need to invest in its roster to ensure that Slot can go for multiple pieces of silverware again next time around. Work has already begun and there remains, of course, a question about the contract situations of some vital men.
Here is the Liverpool.com verdict on the transfer gossip to emerge around the Reds today. We start with one player who is being linked with an exit again, to a familiar destination.
Luis Diaz (Liverpool)
Liverpool winger Luis Diaz is a prime target for Barcelona ahead of the summer window, a report in Spain has claimed. According to SPORT, the Colombian is someone that Xavi admires greatly and the Catalan side has been linked extensively with a move to La Liga before. He is under contract at Anfield until 2027.
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Diaz has scored 13 times so far for Liverpool this season. The forward, sign from FC Porto in January 2022, has been a regular in the first-choice team Slot has generally gone with during his time at Anfield so far, including starting at Wembley in the Carabao Cup final.
Liverpool.com says: Losing Diaz would mean signing a really elite replacement, which would not be cheap nor easy. It would require a balancing act to get it right when there are a few other things to be thinking about as well this summer.
Joao Gomes (Wolves)
Liverpool wants to sign Wolves midfielder Joao Gomes this summer in a deal worth around $55m (£42m/€50m), according to the Spanish outlet Fichajes. The Brazilian midfielder has impressed in a struggling side and like Rayan Ait Nouri and Matheus Cunha, would fit in well at a club with a much higher level than where he currently is.