Football transfer rumours: will Liverpool pay £80m for Jan Oblak?

Today’s fluff is just about here

Is £80m a lot of money? Obviously, in the real world, it is. But is it really in the context of football? Around a third of the world transfer record? Is that a lot? In some contexts a tenner is a huge amount, so what’s £80m to football? The Mill brings this up because £80m is apparently the price Liverpool have been quoted to sign Jan Oblak from Atlético Madrid, a price that they have deemed too spicy for even them. Given that their other keeping target, Roma’s implausibly handsome Alisson, will also cost the prettiest of pennies, the Daily Mirror reckons Liverpool might do what they always seem to when stuck in the transfer market: give Southampton a call, and ask for Alex McCarthy.

Away from their hunt for a new goalie, Liverpool are sniffing around assorted forwards: Lyon are open to selling them Nabil Fekir, and they’re also kicking the tyres on Xherdan Shaqiri. The world’s first rectangular footballer is available at the cheap, cheap price of £12m, so presumably the logic is they don’t have much to lose, particularly if they stick him next to players a little better than Mame Biram Diouf.

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