Bayern Munich confirm transfer interest in Liverpool and Barcelona signings

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Mohamed Salah brought his glittering nine-year spell on Merseyside to an end last season and determined to fill the void left by the Egyptian’s departure, Liverpool’s hierarchy drew up a shortlist of potential attacking reinforcements. Sign up for In The Mixer, Metro's football newsletter Get exclusive analysis and previews of the biggest games every Friday.

Barcola went on to make his Liverpool debut in the side’s 2-0 victory away to Ipswich last Friday, coming off the bench for fellow summer signing Victor Munoz with half-an-hour remaining at Portman Road. And on Wednesday night, the 24-year-old started for the first time as Andoni Iraola’s men kicked off their Champions League group-stage campaign with a 2-1 win at home to Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid.

Liverpool signed Barcola from PSG for a fee of £123m (Picture: Getty) The Frenchman made his full debut in the Reds’ Champions League clash with Atleti (Picture: Getty) If Eberl had his way, though, Barcola would be pulling on Bayern’s colours this season, with the 52-year-old director revealing to Sport Bild: ‘To be honest, I already know Bradley from my time at Leipzig. Of course, we also looked into him at Bayern.’ Eberl also tried to sign Barcola when he was at RB Leipzig (Picture: DeFodi Images/Shutterstock) Liverpool’s eye-watering £123m deal for Barcola saw the Frenchman become the second-most expensive player in the club’s history behind record signing Alexander Isak. ‘When you hear about sums like that, it was too much for us,’ Eberl added. ‘With Luis Diaz, we made a decision that was also costly, but on a different scale than Bradley.’ Bayern did not follow up on their initial interest in Gordon (Picture: Getty) In addition to Barcola, the Bundesliga champions also mulled over a move for Anthony Gordon before the Englishman left Newcastle to join Barcelona in a £69m deal. ‘It’s no secret that we were interested in Anthony Gordon for the left wing,’ Eberl went on. ‘We decided we were not doing that because he was simply too expensive.’ Bayern made three additions to Vincent Kompany’s first-team squad this summer, with Ismael Saibari, Nathaniel Brown and Bara Sapoko Ndiaye signing on the dotted line.