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Other suitors include Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Tottenham,
and Leicester.
Slow news day today – so here’s another rumour of Liverpool FC signing a Turkish central defender. This
time, it’s Juventus’ 22-year old centre-back Merih Demiral.
Turkish outlet Fanatik is reporting that Liverpool, along with
Real Madrid, Atletico
Madrid, Tottenham, and Leicester, are hoping to sign the young
defender this window. Juventus are open to a sale, no loans, and
have set their price at around £45m.
This doesn’t really add up in several ways – one, Juventus only
paid £16m to sign him 18 months ago. What happened in between that
has caused his value to go up by almost 30 million pounds? He only
suffered an ACL injury that has limited him to 20 games since. Even
stranger, Merih has the weird distinction of having never completed
a top-flight season for a club before. First, he was sold by
Sporting without having made an appearance, then he spent six
months with Alanyaspor, six months with Sassuolo, and has been
injured at Juventus.
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The only real reason why a move could happen: It’s a tough
centre-back room at Juve, with Matthijs de Ligt, Leonardo Bonucci,
and Giorgio Chiellini the other options. A Goal.com report details some unhappiness on the
pecking order of centrebacks there, but even if he forced a move
through to Merseyside, this problem will likely rear its head again
with the return of Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez beyond this
season.
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