Liverpool may look to reap the benefits of a creating scenario on the continent and land a free signing in January, following a torrid six months at Anfield for Federico Chiesa.
To this point Arne Slot’s solely signing as Liverpool supervisor who has really arrived on the membership, Chiesa has performed simply 78 minutes in all competitions having suffered with accidents and a scarcity of sharpness.
Liverpool legend Dietmar Hamann has branded the signing a “nightmare” general, however there could possibly be extra optimistic indicators on the way in which because the Reds hierarchy look to make a extra astute deal within the upcoming window.
Liverpool on crimson alert to Dani Olmo scenario at Barcelona
As The Athletic stories, Barcelona face dropping Dani Olmo without spending a dime this January, regardless of having signed him for £50m from RB Leipzig in the summertime. The Spaniard is at the moment not eligible to play for the Catalan aspect from January 1, 2025, nevertheless, on account of but extra points concerning La Liga’s wage guidelines.
Golf equipment in La Liga are set wage caps yearly so as to stop overspending, with these limits based mostly on every particular person membership’s working prices. Barcelona have continually teetered on the sting of the restrict, that means new gamers usually have to attend for squad members to depart earlier than being registered – and even then that may not be sufficient.
Certainly, although Barcelona signed Olmo on August 9, they didn’t formally register him with La Liga till August 27, as a result of the wages each events agreed to have been too excessive and would have seen Barca flout La Liga’s wage cap. Barcelona solely really managed to register Olmo when Andreas Christensen picked up an harm that will maintain him out for 4 months – a size of interval through which La Liga permits a membership to register a alternative participant if their wages are not more than 80 per cent of the injured participant’s.
However, with Olmo’s new six-year deal far outweighing Christensen’s wage, quite than falling the required 20 per cent beneath, Barcelona have been awarded a brief allow to register Olmo for simply 4 months. With that allowance set to run out on December 31, Olmo will not be a Barcelona-licenced participant come January 1 if the problem is not resolved.
Mundo Deportivo reported final week that Olmo has a clause in his contract permitting him to depart without spending a dime if he is unregistered by that date, and although The Athletic suggests he desires to remain in Catalonia, it is unlikely he’d stay for a minimum of six months with out the choice of taking part in.
Liverpool, subsequently, may look to reap the benefits of the scenario with a proposal of their very own within the January switch window. The Reds have been closely in signing the 26-year-old in the summertime after he impressed at Euro 2024, and will look to reignite negotiations.
Presently high of the Premier League and trying to construct upon a powerful begin to the season, Arne Slot will undoubtedly need to strengthen his squad in January. In FourFourTwo‘s view, it is a scenario that’s definitely price holding an in depth eye on – Olmo is a high participant who need to wait round for Barcelona to tug extra levers to allow them to pay him the agreed payment, particularly when a membership like Liverpool are prepared and ready with a proposal of their very own.
