The transfer talk surrounding Liverpool and a £51 million move is boring, the move isn’t going to happen and we should move on.
Timo Werner keeps on being linked with an Anfield move, and I get it. I get why, he’s a good player who scores goals and works hard.
The German has 25 goals in 29 appearances for RB Leipzig this season and has 86 goals in 144 appearances for Leipzig and has played 209 Bundesliga games. At just 23-years-old, that’s massive bang for your buck and the forward has space to improve.
Jurgen Klopp would definitely be able to get more from Timo Werner, as well, but where would he play? Not regularly in the front three, that’s for sure. Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah play whenever they can while Takumi Minamino has been signed to operate across the front three, as can Divock Origi.
Werner isn’t going to move to Liverpool, especially not for that fee. Why would he swap title chasing Leipzig, for whom he is a key player, for a place on the bench at Liverpool? This isn’t to say that elite footballers don’t want to play at Anfield, because everyone would want to.
Rather, they’d want the security of knowing they’d play every week. He wouldn’t be guaranteed that at Liverpool.
Michael Edwards isn’t going to splash that cash just for the sake of it, just because we have it. £51 million is a lot to spend on someone who will improve the overall quality of the squad, but not immediately the first XI.
It could also disrupt the pathway to the first team from the Academy that has been cultivated since Klopp took charge. There is a real sense that Liverpool could bring through one, two or three youngsters a season and we’d all take that over an expensive import.
Timo Werner is a lovely idea, is a good player and would be a big signing. But it’s not going to happen and the talk around it is getting boring now.