Fabrizio Romano confirms Liverpool can complete bargain £47m deal for £85.5m monster

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Liverpool have a buy option worth €55m [£47m], which they could activate for loan signing Ronald Araujo.Fabrizio Romano corrected his prior update on the matter, having previously informed his followers that the Reds didn’t have a buy option included in the deal taking the centre-back out of Barcelona.The Uruguayan has started all but two of the Merseysiders’ first five games (across all competitions) this term.Fabrizio Romano: Liverpool have a buy option for Ronald Araujo(Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images)The Italian transfer news expert exclusively informed CaughtOffside: “Many of you asking me about his situation in terms of future, in terms of contract. I was mentioning on a podcast that he didn’t have a buy option clause.“So, Liverpool didn’t have a buy option clause in the deal.

I think it was there is a buy option clause for Liverpool and it’s worth €55 million. So that’s the buy option close for Liverpool.“So if Liverpool want to keep Araujo, they know the condition of the deal.”So there you have it; Liverpool can sign Araujo from Barcelona between now and the end of his loan spell at Anfield.Want more Empire of the Kop coverage?

Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list for news you can trustAnd while those at the Camp Nou, and perhaps many more neutrals, might be keen to highlight the potential drawbacks of such a deal based on the footballer’s prior struggles in Spain, there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary.Even if we ignore the fact that this is clearly a player Liverpool have had their eye on for some time, it’s worth noting that, at one point, Ronald Araujo’s stock was so high Barcelona would only consider selling if an offer around the €100m [£85.5m] mark came in. However, a concrete move, evidently, never materialised.But if we’re to use that £85.5m figure as a reference point, Liverpool could effectively sign a top centre-back in European football for almost half the price of his reported peak value.How has Araujo got on at Liverpool so far?(Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)Following a summer window in which £85.5m would be enough to get you a player worth £47m in recent years gone by, there’s a potentially remarkable market opportunity we’ve got on our hands here.And yes, naysayers would be correct to caution that it’s still early days for Araujo and his L4 career.