Football transfer rumours: Manchester City close in on Jorginho?

Today’s tell-all can’t knock Everton’s football but can knock some of their passing that went astray

While Liverpool have considerably larger Italian-based fish to fry at Anfield, their fans may be saddened by reports that Manchester City are in the box-seat to land a whopper Jürgen Klopp had been hoping to lure to Anfield. The German has been a longtime admirer of the Napoli midfielder Jorginho since the player’s time at Hellas Verona and his subsequent success at Napoli, whose formation and tactics are not entirely dissimilar to those employed by Liverpool, is only likely to have made Klopp covet him more.

Unfortunately for Liverpool, reports suggest City are close to getting a £50m deal for the Brazil-born Italy international over the line and are therefore prepared to drop their interest in Shakhtar Donetsk’s Fred. Elsewhere, the Currant Bun claims exclusively that Pep Guardiola has tired of waiting for John Stones to fulfil his potential and will reluctantly let him leave the Etihad Stadium if the price is right.

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