Liverpool offering to outpay Barcelona to sign exciting 23-year-old, says ESPN’s Llorens

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Liverpool are reportedly in the race for the signature of Barcelona’s Ronald Araujo, with the Reds allegedly offering to furnish the 23-year-old with a bigger contract than the Catalan giants have put on the table.

This comes courtesy of a tweet from ESPN’s Moises Llorens, with the journalist claiming that Manchester United and the Reds are prepared to beat out the La Liga giants’ offer of €5m a year.

Equating to roughly over £126,000-per-week (pre-tax, presumably), that would make the Uruguayan one of the Merseysiders highest earners on a long-term deal.

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Whilst we can certainly appreciate the talent on offer from the centre-half, we have to question why we’d be interested in yet another option in that position with arguably four world-class players currently available to us in that department.

Unless the rumours around Joe Gomez’s potential exit contain a grain of truth, we’d have to suggest quite a bit more than a grain of salt to take with this particular claim.

Certainly, if we were looking to make any further additions to the back line, the obvious transfer would be to find a Kostas Tsimikas-esque signing capable of providing cover for Trent Alexander-Arnold down on the right flank.

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  1. Please stop saying we have 4 world class CBs! Please. It’s ridiculous.
    1. Gomez is sadly nowhere near good enough. Has qualities and is ok for 4th choice but no more. Let alone his abysmal injury record. No ways he is a viable option.
    2. Matip has at best one more great year left in him.

    Any injuries and we are again full of holes.

    That Araujo guy is a younger version of Rudiger…

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