Minamino

Takumi Minamino is poised to leave Liverpool for Monaco after the clubs agreed a fee of €15m (£12.9m) plus add-ons for the Japan forward.

Manchester United are in talks with Watford to sign Daniel Bachmann as a backup goalkeeper. Tottenham and Paris Saint-Germain are among the clubs monitoring developments. His departure would continue a summer of change in Jürgen Klopp’s attacking options.

Liverpool have agreed to sell attacking midfielder Takumi Minamino to Monaco for an initial fee of €15million (£12.9m).

However, the money raised from their sale is not likely to be spent this summer, as the Reds’ transfer business has already concluded according to some reports, following the signings of Nunez from Benfica, Fabio Carvalho from Fulham and Cavin Ramsay from Aberdeen. He will become the third major Liverpool forward to leave the club this summer following the release of Divock Origi and Mane’s much mooted move to Bayern Munich. The recent signings of Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez have pushed Minamino even further down the pecking order and his time at Liverpool is set to end after 14 goals in 55 games in all competitions.

Liverpool look set to join the departures of Sadio Mane and Divock Origi with Takumi Minamino, as his move to Monaco edges closer.

The Japanese international looks to have been a little frustrated with his game time and so perhaps this was a move that the player wanted, with our club happy to compromise so that we got more money and our No.18 went to the club that he wanted to play for. It’s a promising profit that is set to be made on the 27-year-old but it will take a while for the money to arrive in our bank and in full. Liverpool look set to join the departures of Sadio Mane and Divock Origi with Takumi Minamino, as his move to Monaco edges closer.

Liverpool missed out on Aurélien Tchouaméni to Real Madrid, but they may have an underappreciated transfer advantage in 2023 thanks to Takumi Minamino.

With a high volume of progressive carries too (78th percentile), he’s clearly someone who proactively looks to get his team up the pitch and into more dangerous areas. In terms of playing style, he’s similar to Aston Villa’s John McGinn, a player Jürgen Klopp reportedly likes. And it’s a relationship Liverpool may look to tap into, given that Monaco place so much faith in exciting young talent. And Fofana isn’t overly safe when it comes to his distribution either: he’s in the top 25 percentiles for progressive passes and passes into the penalty area. The Principality side will be pleased with their business. The 21-year-old featured on a shortlist of alternatives to Ibrahima Konaté in 2021, and might well have remained on the Reds’ radar.