06 Jul 2026 15:19:16
Hello all,
Not a great update I'm afraid but felt it's worth touching base with you all.
So.
Leipzig have declared to PSG that they would want Ibrahim Mbaye as part of a deal for Yan Diomande.
That changes the landscape of this transfer pretty dramatically if PSG were to accept this.
With Akilouche heading to Paris (as I stated a month or so back) this now opens the door for Barcola to leave if they pursue Diomande further.
We are still there for Yan, we've done a lot of work on the deal but I do get the feeling people at the club are growing tired and are pretty pissed with the players' representatives.
If we sell Gakpo, Barcola is 100% going to be in the conversation for Liverpool but it doesn't help us with the vacancy on the right hand side.
I'd think in the coming week we will likely start hearing a lot of rumours, most of which take with a pinch of salt.
I'll keep you updated if I hear anything concrete.
Ta.
06 Jul 2026 16:01:52
Cheers for the update, Carra. Much appreciate these updates.
Is the door open by any chance for a Mo 1 year deal? If we end up signing no one there this summer, it might be a shout.
06 Jul 2026 16:04:21
Cheers, Carra, appreciate the update as always, even though it's not the best of news.
06 Jul 2026 16:06:10
Thanks for sharing, Carra, as always.
I think we're all getting tired of his representatives at this point.
Unfortunately, right wing is the number one priority for us this summer, so we need to make sure we get it right!
06 Jul 2026 16:18:20
Thank you, Carra.
It's a tough transfer market in many ways.
Resources to give up Diomande and then sell Gakpo and
buy left, right wingers and strikers, a center midfielder.
I wish I could buy a running back on the right.
06 Jul 2026 16:26:52
Thanks Cara, in your next update, can you also provide backup options/plans on right wing assuming Diomande transfer is looking less likely day by day?
06 Jul 2026 16:28:52
Carra, my problem with PSG is on the right they have Desire Doue and Diomande is nowhere that level, he might push Barcola but for me PSG have now become the best club side in the world.
I don't see how Diomande makes them better, he gets nowhere near the first team.
I don't think they are stupid and they are better ways to improve the squad and team and Diomande is not it for them.
06 Jul 2026 16:29:33
Nice one Carra, we need to move on to other targets. We're being toyed with, unfortunately.
Not many good choices though, fear we don't end up with either Yan or Barcola tbh.
Looking bleak.
06 Jul 2026 16:29:36
Appreciate the update.
As much as we want him, I don't think we can afford to lose anymore time trying to get this deal over the line. Still so many signings to make.
I think we have to accept the left hand side will be more dominant than the right for the next few years.
It doesn't seem like there's anyone available that can come in this summer and improve us on the RW.
06 Jul 2026 16:40:04
Have a real strong feeling this window is going to be a massive let down leaving a lot of fans, myself included, extremely disgruntled. Just don't see us doing much business at all with these frankly absurd prices this summer.
Also, gonna stick my neck on the line and say we're definitely not signing Diomande or Barcola.
06 Jul 2026 16:47:41
Imho, they should throw the kitchen sink at Rayan, looks a better player to my eye anyway (and can also play CF). I'd do the same for Bouaddi too (who apparently can also play RB). Those two alone would go a long way to sorting our problem positions, and with that big outlay, maybe more Munoz-like signings for the other areas.
06 Jul 2026 16:55:07
Cheers, Carra.
Time is ticking on the window.
06 Jul 2026 16:57:11
Cheers, Carra.
Maybe it's time to just move on. Why would our hierarchy wanna deal with a player's reps who are so blatantly awful to deal with?
Either test Bayern's resolve with a 140 mil bid for Olise, or go for someone like Kroupi, who would be a fair bit cheaper and can play anywhere across the front, or maybe even Minteh from Brighton.
Quick, young and busts a gut up and down... not so sure on his end product tho...
06 Jul 2026 17:01:50
What we need above anything else, is 2 maybe 3 top midfielders, we might lose Macallister, Endo, maybe Jones, n Grav needs to get back to doing when we won the league, strengthen the midfield n it helps the defence and attack, then we can worry about wingers.
06 Jul 2026 17:02:23
Remember when our scouts went to Salzburg and we signed Minamino?
There was another player playing for Salzburg at that time that went to Dortmund.
Or when we signed Keita from them, or even Konate.
Ya, maybe we should never sign our first choice with Red Bull clubs. It kinda bodes well for us.
06 Jul 2026 17:12:51
We've known Salah was leaving for months and months.
Sounds like another Hughes masterclass to me. Pinning all the hopes and dreams on one player, and end up with Summerville and Bowen. ??
06 Jul 2026 17:24:59
Yes, we knew Salah was leaving months, and we've been working on Diomande. They've done a lot of work to try to get him. If he ends up at PSG I don't see how that's a stick to beat Hughes with. And a club could do a lot worse than end up with Bowen. Top little player.
06 Jul 2026 17:32:03
Cheers Carra.
06 Jul 2026 17:46:02
Cheers, Carra. Thanks for taking the time to keep us in the loop. ?
06 Jul 2026 17:55:27
@grino75, ... I've said exactly the same for long enough. Which is just one of the reasons why PSG Won't buy him; swap deal or not.
He will not go to PSG unless RBL sell him for a ridiculously low fee - which will not happen.
PSG do not just buy 100mil players anymore for the sake of it, especially when they won't get in the 1st 11.
PSG are looking at bigger fish, Olise is one of those.
06 Jul 2026 17:23:48
F**k Diomande and Barcola, get Mika Godts an highjack the Akilouche deal
06 Jul 2026 18:22:48
Cheers Carra, getting sick of this Diamande s*** show.
Need to move on, hopefully the club have other signings going on behind the scenes.
06 Jul 2026 20:49:18
Cheers for the update, Carra. Surely now his agency will push for Diomande to join us, otherwise I'd assume they'd lose out on their cut if there's a player swap involved.
06 Jul 2026 20:52:35
John Barnes is God. Football changes, mate, all the time, you see, adamant he is coming. I am 50 - 50, I think if PSG coughed up he would go there and on loan back to RBL. What's your thoughts on the percentage of that he comes?
06 Jul 2026 21:11:16
Big risk, Lfc8, may be we end up with no one new of the right standard in the key areas of weakness at RW, RB and CM. It's a very slow window other than Spurs so perhaps most business gets done later in July early Aug this year.
06 Jul 2026 21:16:41
Nice one Carra mate.
07 Jul 2026 20:25:21
Be interesting to know from any genuine in the know posters who is setting the onfield strategy at the club, given Hughes is leaving, Edwards probably the same, and Iraola on a two year deal.
We’re typically signing players on 5 year deals, and as a minimum they stay for 3, so will likely outlive our directors and coach.
Most players we’re linked with for midfield like Wharton don’t meet the profile of the type of player supporters think we need, and equally don’t fit with Iraola’s style of play as we’ve seen it at Bournemouth.
We’ve bought a guy in Munoz who seems to usually play off the left, where we have Rio and Gakpo, and are still being linked with left sided players like Barcola.
We have an injury prone right back who’ll probably never play more than half a season for us in the league, but don’t seem to be linked with any first team ready right backs.
The Diomande saga is at least showing we’re trying hard to get a Mo replacement, but unfortunately that’s fading, with only two other right sided players being linked - again both very young players from Germany. It’s puzzling.
07 Jul 2026 21:31:59
@TopAlfie1006, I appreciate football changes all the time, but what won't change is PSG coughing up the required fee. It just isn't happening. They were never keen on him in the 1st place. Not that they don't believe he'll be a quality footballer, but currently, with one season behind him, it's simply too much money to chance on him.
And there is no way he will dislodge Doue on the right.
PSG no longer just splash the cash on just anyone. They are interested if the person can improve the team, if they can't, they are not. And Diomande cannot.
It's not whether Diomande wants PSG over Liverpool - Liverpool is all he's got.
100% for me at the moment pal.