Report: Liverpool switch attention from Timo Werner to Ousmane Dembele

[TLW]

With the much discussed move for Timo Werner seemingly on the back burner for now, Liverpool have switched their attention to Barcelona winger Ousmane Dembele according to reports.

The move of Werner to the current Champions League holders seemed to be a lock a few weeks ago, but with RB Leipzig insisting any club has to pay his £50 million release clause, that has put the Reds off who value the striker at £30 million in the post-coronavirus market.

Metro (via Mundo Deportivo) has led to Liverpool casting a eye at Dembele who Klopp is a big fan of.

The young French winger joined Dortmund the season after Klopp departed the German club and the current Reds manager has taken a interest in his career path since which had taken him to Barcelona on a deal worth £135.5 million.

His potential led to Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu to say last year:

“We are happy with what we have, as Dembele is better than Neymar and he is a good professional player.

"He is a young guy who arrived at a huge club and that's not easy, but he has adapted and he is much better than Neymar."

However the relationship has not worked out with the 22 year-old suffering a catalogue of leg muscle injuries and when he has been fit, the performances have not been up to the standard that was expected.

 

This has led to mounting frustrations by all parties and Barcelona belting that they can cash in on their asset with a figure as low as £40million being speculated.

If the winger who has only made 74 appearances and 19 goals in his three year spell with the Catalan giants was to come to the Reds not only would he need to work on his fitness but also his off-field discipline which has also been lacking.

Klopp is a master at getting the best out of his players and if Dembele is willing to put in the work, it can be a win-win for both parties.
 

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[Guest Alex_K]

Who writes these bulletins? The quality & tone is way, way off base from the Usher editorials. Must be someone else writing them? Just pure clickbait

[Bad Red Bull]

2 hours ago, Alex_K said:

Who writes these bulletins? The quality & tone is way, way off base from the Usher editorials. Must be someone else writing them? Just pure clickbait

Why would Usher write for Mundo Deportivo which is the source of the above rumour.

[Grinch]

Someone said he was better than Neymar, ha. 

[Jairzinho]

Injury prone and generally soft as fuck. Do not want.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Oh, the old switcheroo. 

[VladimirIlyich]

1 hour ago, Grinch said:

Someone said he was better than Neymar, ha. 

Probably a better team player,at least.

[Grinch]

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Probably a better team player,at least.

Thank god they had dembele and not Neymar last year.  Amount of clear cut chances he had to put the game to bed.

[Guest Alex_K]

4 hours ago, Bad Red Bull said:

Why would Usher write for Mundo Deportivo which is the source of the above rumour.

Source of the rumour ≠ write up in the report, which is not from Mundo Deportivo

5 days ago: "Report: Werner transfer takes another step closer to fruition"

Today: "Report: Liverpool switch attention from Timo Werner to Ousmane Dembele .. With the much discussed move for Timo Werner seemingly on the back burner for now"

All a bit too clickbaity to carry the same "TLW" tag when there is so much good content created. Just my opinion of course.

[El Dangerous]

TLW used to stand for something but now it fall’s for everything. Viva la Koptalk.

[Captain Turdseye]

41 minutes ago, Alex_K said:

Source of the rumour ≠ write up in the report, which is not from Mundo Deportivo

5 days ago: "Report: Werner transfer takes another step closer to fruition"

Today: "Report: Liverpool switch attention from Timo Werner to Ousmane Dembele .. With the much discussed move for Timo Werner seemingly on the back burner for now"

All a bit too clickbaity to carry the same "TLW" tag when there is so much good content created. Just my opinion of course.

Are you suggesting that Dave doesn’t get up at 4am every day to bang out a few words to add to some copy and pasted newspaper quotes? That’s disgraceful. 
 

I think there’s a ‘journalist’ in a different time zone helping him out. 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

If it’s in the Metro I’m going for 100% accurate welcome to Liverpool ( insert name)

[Megadrive Man]

He's injury prone, inconsistent and doesn't seem to have the right attitude. I wouldn't want him here.  

[aws]

10 minutes ago, MegadriveMan said:

He's injury prone, inconsistent and doesn't seem to have the right attitude. I wouldn't want him here.  

Well tough. It's Dave's site. 

[Harry Squatter]

Barcelona really fucked up paying 250m for him and Coutinho. Its hilarious and will hopefully set them back years, even more so when Messi can't keep producing magic every game. 

[Megadrive Man]

14 minutes ago, aws said:

Well tough. It's Dave's site. 

 

If he pays his £2 a month then fair enough.

[VladimirIlyich]

Just now, Doctor Troy said:

Barcelona really fucked up paying 250m for him and Coutinho. Its hilarious and will hopefully set them back years, even more so when Messi can't keep producing magic every game. 

The only other option is the bigger cunts at Real Madrid. Oh for a Valancia or Deportivo La Coruna type to become serious contenders once again.

[Harry Squatter]

Just now, VladimirIlyich said:

The only other option is the bigger cunts at Real Madrid. Oh for a Valancia or Deportivo La Coruna type to become serious contenders once again.

True, but as long as we stay in the Champions league hopefully they won't threaten us in that respect.  

[Pureblood]

Dembele Dembele Dembele

Dembele Dembele Dembele

 

Alisson connected to the Virgil

Virgil connected to the Hendo

Hendo connected to the Mane

Mane connected to the goal

 

Dembele Dembele Dembele

Dembele Dembele Dembele

 

[VladimirIlyich]

Our business with the bigger clubs tends to be us selling our offshoots to them rather than the other way round. Dembele would only be brought here to counteract any shortfalls,financially,in the Coutinho deal. I think its bollocks and Werner is still very much a possibility,but maybe in a year's time.

[dockers_strike]

Id be majorly surprised if Jurgen and his backroom staff have switched attention from Werner to Dembele. He's been in the news since he went to Barcelona for all the wrong reasons, hasnt he? Would think it's more a diversionary tactic if there's any truth in the rumour.

[Bjornebye]

It’s the wrong Dembele anyway. The Moussa is far better 

[Bruce Spanner]

2 hours ago, Doctor Troy said:

Barcelona really fucked up paying 250m for him and Coutinho. Its hilarious and will hopefully set them back years, even more so when Messi can't keep producing magic every game. 

 

The bigger elephant is Messi.

 

He's on insane money on a 'lifetime' contract, that he can terminate when he feels like.

 

If he chooses he could do another 3/4 seasons, with diminishing returns, on the bones of one million a week and there's fuck all they can do.

 

They're a financial basket case, Suarez will be picking up a fortune, Griezman the same, Dembele, Couthino, Vidal, Rakitic all picking up big money for little to no return on investment. Then you have the prospects which are being paid more than other teams first team players and the assorted shite they bulk the squad out with, it's a potential disaster.

 

They could be years away from a stable and decent team, good.

 

I'd take Dembele on loan though, which might suit all parties.

[El Dangerous]

Yeah, if we’re entering the loan market, which I suspect will be the way to go for buying and selling this season then Dembele or Coutinho would be shrewd under the right conditions. If we can do a deal like that and add a couple of promising youngsters then there’s at least a bit of fresh blood in the mix.

[Arnaud]

On 31/05/2020 at 14:44, dockers_strike said:

Id be majorly surprised if Jurgen and his backroom staff have switched attention from Werner to Dembele. He's been in the news since he went to Barcelona for all the wrong reasons, hasnt he? Would think it's more a diversionary tactic if there's any truth in the rumour.

I read a really good piece a few month ago in L’Equipe I think. They said he had a bad behavior at first - staying late at night, Terrible diet based on junk food ect which lead to muscle injuries. But then he has changed a lot and the other muscles injuries were more connected with the way Barca have trained him with low intensity and not enough sprints. Their training did not fit his very muscular and fast body.

that was a very good piece of paper, and L’Equipe is quite serious and accurate on theses kinds of Issues.