Club ready to accept €55m Liverpool offer | OneFootball

A €55m offer is enough for one club to accept for their star player.

Richard Hughes made an encouraging start to life at Liverpool with several exciting signings last summer, but the reality is the rebuild at Anfield is still only getting started.

There’s definitely talent in the current squad, but the team still feels incomplete and slightly unbalanced. That’s probably the biggest difference between this Liverpool side and the one built by Jurgen Klopp during the club’s most successful years.

At their peak, Klopp’s Liverpool had everything. They were aggressive, intense, technically brilliant and physically dominant, but above all, they had frightening pace across the pitch. Every player complemented the others perfectly, which made the entire system incredibly difficult to stop.

Right now, that balance just is not there.

Liverpool still have technically gifted players and there’s no questioning the effort levels from most of the squad. But one thing the team clearly lacks is genuine explosiveness in attack. In the past, Liverpool could rely on the devastating speed of Sadio Mané to destroy teams in transition.

Even Luis Diaz at his sharpest brought that unpredictability and acceleration. Meanwhile, Mohamed Salah, while still world-class in many areas, no longer has quite the same electric burst he once relied upon.

That lack of pace has changed the way Liverpool attack. They no longer look as dangerous in open spaces or as capable of overwhelming opponents with quick transitions.

Because of that, restoring speed and athleticism now feels like one of the clearest priorities for Liverpool’s recruitment team heading into another massive summer window.

Finding players capable of bringing back the directness, pace and unpredictability Liverpool once had with Sadio Mane and peak Salah is absolutely crucial to the club’s rebuild.

Arne Slot has already made it clear that adding speed to the squad is a major priority, and it is easy to understand why. Liverpool simply do not look as explosive in transition anymore, and that attacking sharpness has to return if they want to compete at the very top again.

The problem is finding the right players.

There are not many elite wingers in world football who combine genuine pace with top-level one-versus-one ability, and the few who do exist are already playing for Europe’s biggest clubs. The very best wide players right now are at Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

Players like Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Michael Olise and Lamine Yamal are simply not available.

Even if there was a chance of them being sold, Liverpool would struggle to convince them to leave clubs currently competing at the very highest level with far more stability and certainty around their projects.

Yan Diomande is one of the favourites for this role. However, there's another player on the club's radar in Bazoumana Toure.

Toure made a name for himself at Hammarby after arriving at the Swedish side from his native Ivory Coast. At Hammarby he made 12 goal contributions in just around 1700 minutes before earning a big move to Hoffenheim.

The Ivorian international is a different type of winger to what Liverpool possess at the moment. And it's not just because Toure has pace - his approach to the game is different.

What Toure thrives at is driving at opponents. He has the best dribble completion rate out of players who average at least 4.5 dribbles per 90 minutes in the Bundesliga (69%) and he's very good at running down the touchline.

He has 17 goal contributions in the Bundesliga this season, and he is an ideal profile for Liverpool considering he is only 19-years-old.

According to Fussbaldaten Liverpool are indeed very interested in the winger and are ready to accept an offer of €50 to €55 million from the Reds in order to allow the Ivorian to leave.

For that price, Toure would be an absolute bargain and you could easily see Liverpool making this move. He's exactly the pacy and direct winger that Liverpool need at the moment.