Liverpool Notebook: When Yan Diomande transfer decision is expected as £60m defender details plans
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As things stand, there has not yet been a second offer."Diomande himself, speaking after Ivory Coast's 2-0 win over Curacao to confirm qualification to the knock-out stages of a World Cup for the first time, said: "Right now, I don't know."I am not thinking about my future after the World Cup."I am trying to put all my energy into the World Cup and we will see what is going to happen after that. As for me I am more focused on the World Cup, that's the most important thing."It doesn't happen all the time, it's only every four years, so I am making the most of it and for the rest, we'll see."And with Ivory Coast marching on and Liverpool and Leipzig remaining over £25m apart in their respective valuations of the teenager, expect this saga to continue for some time yet.Jarell Quansah plansBayer Leverkusen defender Jarell Quansah has played down talk of his future as he continues to try and stake a claim for inclusion at the World Cup for England.Liverpool sold the Warrington-born centre-back for around £35m last summer but have a buyback clause installed at around the £60m-mark.
They have also already agreed terms on the contract Quansah would sign should the Reds wish to bring him back to Merseyside.The specifics of that deal has opened up the prospect of an Anfield return at some stage, particularly since Ibrahima Konate left to join Real Madrid as a free agent."I always think about the now really," Quansah told reporters Stateside at the World Cup."We’ve got a massive tournament ahead of us, and at World Cups anything can happen from one week to the next."You just don’t know with football - just like I didn’t know exactly when I was gonna leave Liverpool and my time at Bristol."So you can be anywhere in the next two years, you can be anywhere in the next ten. I’ve just got to think about how I can affect the now and be the best version of myself right now, and that’s all I can do."Derisory Alisson Becker claimFootball agent David Lavelle has claimed that Juventus offered Liverpool as little as £6m for Alisson Becker.The Italian club had looked into bringing in the Reds goalkeeper this summer and it was thought that the Brazil No.1 was open to the prospect of a new challenge after eight years on Merseyside.It looks increasingly likely, however, that Alisson will remain a Liverpool player after a one-year contract extension was triggered by the club earlier this year.And speaking to Italian publication Oggi Sport Notizie, Lavelle, who fronts up agency 365 Sports Management, has claimed some inside knowledge of how the talks went between the Reds and Juve."You have to remember that Liverpool have changed their coach to Iraola," said the Belfast-based intermediary.
I know that he has agreed personal terms with Juventus."I think the Brazilian is worth around €15million or so and the Bianconeri have entered the race for this goalkeeper with a cheeky offer."I don't know if the Juventus management has offered €7million (£6.3m) to Liverpool just because he is in the last year of his contract. I would suspect that Alisson is 33 years old and was very injury-prone last season, he's a goalkeeper prone to injuries."But listen, he is one of the best goalkeepers in the world without a shadow of a doubt and Liverpool would like to keep him."