'Really important': Fabrizio Romano drops update on 'very expensive' Liverpool transfer target ahead of potential move

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Liverpool have been linked with a potential move for Alessandro Bastoni, and Fabrizio Romano has now shared how Inter Milan feel about losing the player.Reports back in 2025 first saw the Reds mooted to make a move for Bastoni at some point.More recently, FC Barcelona have joined the transfer hunt for the centre-back, with Fabrizio Romano now saying Inter do not want to sell, but if they do, it will need to be a ‘very big financial proposal’. How’d you feel about that?Credit: Gaspafotos/MB Media/Getty Images Inter Milan would need big offer to part with Alessandro BastoniSpeaking on his YouTube channel this week, Romano suggested that Bastoni would cost less than what Inter Milan earned from Romelu Lukaku’s move to Chelsea, but he said it was ‘really important to mention’ that the Serie A side still want a big fee for the stopper.He said: “Inter considers Bastoni a crucial player and not a normal player.

But Inter want Bastoni to be a record sale for example, among defenders, to be a really important. “Let me explain well, Inter don’t want Bastoni to be a record sale.

Inter consider Bastoni as a very expensive player; as a top player, they don’t want Bastoni to go.“So in case the situation has to change, must be with a very big financial proposal, this is really important to mention. So it must be a really, really big one.”Bastoni is among the top performers in Italy this season, so it is easy to see why Inter would not want to part with him.An exact price for the centre-back is yet to be mooted, but if he were to move, Liverpool or any other team may need to pay a world-record fee for a centre-back.Virgil van Dijk is Liverpool’s most expensive January signing ever, setting the club back £75m.However, he is no longer the most expensive centre-back of all-time, with his fee having since been surpassed on a couple of occasions.Josko Gvardiol joined Manchester City from RB Leipzig back in 2023 for a fee of £77m, while Harry Maguire’s £80m move from Leicester City to Manchester United in 2019 remains the record.Join Our NewsletterReceive a digest of our best Liverpool content each week direct to your mailbox