Rumour Mongering: Thiago Remains Set on Joining Liverpool

The Bayern midfielder continues to rebuff rumoured Manchester
United interest as he waits on the Reds.

Over the past few days, reports of Barcelona preparing a bid for midfielder Gini
Wijnaldum have begun to dominate the transfer rumour landscape for
Liverpool fans to the expense of the constant
rehashing of the same old Thiago Alcantara rumours.

Those rumours haven’t gone away entirely, though, and with
Thiago to Liverpool being a story that seems inextricably connected
to Wijnaldum’s potential departure, we check in on the latest
Thiago reports bubbling about today in the German press.

The most relevant would appear to be Bild+ (for those trying to keep track
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Previously, it had been easy to read suggestions United were
interested but Thiago wanted Liverpool as, perhaps, a tactic to get
United to up their bid or wage offer—to convince, through a little
extra cash, the player to accept a less favoured destination.

In light of the growing Wijnaldum rumours, though, it begins to
seem less a case of Bayern or Thiago trying to spark a bidding war
and more a case of United interest being rebuffed while the player
patiently waits for the Liverpool situation to play out.