Wolves offer £18m for Liverpool star – club want £35m deal
Wolves have offered £18 million for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Twitter account MTM_LFC, who claims to be a sports journalist with the Guardian and the Athletic, has reported that Wolves are interested in the midfielder.
According to the source, the club have made an offer for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, but will need to come back with an improved one if Liverpool are going to budge.
Sporting director Michael Edwards wants £25 million plus a further £10 million in ad-ons to bring the deal up to something around the price Liverpool paid for the England international in 2017.
Oxlade-Chamberlain has had a weird career on Merseyside. He took some time to get up to speed, and finally looked like a player who could hold down a regular starting place.
However, that ACL injury against Roma blew that plan out of the water; almost as hard as it blew his knee out.
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Despite making 30 Premier League appearances last season, the Ox was inconsistent and failed to grasp his chance when it was presented to him. There are a few Liverpool fans who wouldn’t be sad to see him leave this summer, especially after he picked up that injury in preseason.
Wolves have already spent £37.8 million this summer as they’ve brought in a number of new faces. The most prominent of those is striker Fabio Silva, while Marçal and Vitinha are also new arrivals.
They’ve sold £31 million worth of talent, and that could fund another spending spree in the market. It would be weird to see the club bring in someone who isn’t a Jorge Mendes client, but strange things do happen in football.
It does feel like we’re at a bit of a crossroads in regards to Oxlade-Chamberlain. While there have been some good moments, they haven’t happened consistently enough and the 27-year-old has cut a frustrated figure.
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You can imagine that Edwards would be happy to sell for a decent fee.