Liverpool keen on 'remarkable' Bundesliga forward Yan Diomande after meteoric rise
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Exclusive with Graeme Bailey.Liverpool are keeping a close watch on breakout RB Leipzig talent Yan Diomande, Rousing The Kop understands.Diomande has emerged as one of the most exciting young forwards in Europe this season, scoring four goals and providing two assists in 11 appearances for Leipzig.Still only 18, the Ivorian has fought his way into Ole Werner’s starting XI, catching the eye of Liverpool in the process.Join our newsletter for news & smart analysis. Photo by Oliver Hardt/Getty ImagesYan Diomande has an RB Leipzig release clauseLeipzig paid around £18m for Diomande this summer despite the youngster having only made 10 senior appearances.Scouts saw the potential of the teenager, and are understood to have placed a 100 million Euro release clause into his contract.READ MORE: Liverpool fans should be asking questions after Graham Potter’s Alexander Isak admissionAccording to transfer insider Graeme Bailey, the interest emerging in Diomande – from Liverpool and beyond – looks likely to make the German side a very healthy profit.“Diomande is an extraordinary talent.
Everyone loves him and Liverpool are one of those, this boy is remarkable, he’s definitely one to keep an eye on,” Bailey exclusively tells RTK. Who has been Liverpool’s best summer signing?
“He’s got a 100 million release clause, they paid 20 million Euros for him in the summer after he had only been playing football for six months. That shows you how much they liked him, their scouts did a brilliant job.”Inside Diomande’s meteoric riseDespite having talents such as Johan Bakayoko and Antonio Nusa ahead of him at Leipzig, Diomande has already found a way into Werner’s starting XI.The Ivory Coast international – who has two goals in two appearances for his country – is used to upsetting the odds having had a meteoric rise from his time in Florida’s DME Academy.“Dio’s journey at DME Academy has been nothing short of exceptional,” former director of soccer at DME Academy Thales Peterson told Bundesliga.com.