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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