Liverpool have been backed to sign Antoine Griezmann.
Writing in the Mirror, Stan Collymore has urged owners FSG, sporting director Michael Edwards and manager Jurgen Klopp to get a big deal over the line.
The Daily Mail linked the Barcelona forward with a move to Liverpool, and it would be a transfer that Collymore endorses.
He feels that Klopp’s side will be too light going into 2020/2021 to compete with Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea for the Premier League title; mentally and physically.
Liverpool have only signed three first team players in the last 12 months and none of those are there to seriously pressure the status quo. Adrian is a back-up to Alisson, Kostas Tsimikas is a welcome addition to the squad, and Takumi Minamino should provide something different, but Collymore feels the new faces lack gravitas.
That’s where Antoine Griezmann would come in. I’m not too sure how he thinks Liverpool would finance a deal for the French international, who is valued at £86 million – say Transfermarkt.
"He wrote: “If Liverpool were to get the French international striker then the dressing-room would be thinking the cavalry had finally arrived.”"
Klopp has already confirmed that the club can’t go spending money they don’t have. They aren’t owned by sugar daddies or nation states and don’t have the loose capitol or desire to take on debt that others do.
Anyway, L’Equipe have cast serious doubts over Griezmann leaving Barcelona right now and it doesn’t seem like there’s a deal to be made.
FSG are never going to fork out huge sums for a 29-year-old. If they’re dragging their feet over a move for Thiago, at nearly half the price, there’s no way the former Atletico Madrid man is a serious target.
He would provide a boost in the dressing room and on the field, an arrival of the cavalry, as Collymore put it, but that doesn’t really matter.
It looks like we have to stick with that we’ve already been given and be grateful for it, because FSG aren’t going to change their ways any time soon.