Second star to REJECT Man City in favour of Liverpool transfer | OneFootball

A second star is reportedly ready to pick Liverpool over Manchester City. The Reds have to get this over the line now.

Liverpool got one over on Manchester City back in the summer when they signed Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen. City were firmly in that race, along with Bayern Munich, but the Reds shocked everyone by getting the deal done.

It came down to the player, of course. Wirtz decided Liverpool was the right place for him and he rejected Bayern and City for a move to Merseyside.

It represented a massive coup for Liverpool. The club never really shop at the 'top table' but here they were signing one of the biggest talents in world football and seeing off major competition for him.

City would pivot to Ryan Cherki, hardly a massive downgrade, but it was Liverpool who got the main prize. And it seems that may be about to do that again.

Marc Guehi prefers Liverpool move

Marc Guehi is one of the most in-demand players around right now as he approaches the end of his contract with Crystal Palace. A whole host of elite clubs hope to snap him up, be it with a fee this month or at the deal's end this summer.

It's a strange situation, though, as everyone thought Guehi would be at Liverpool by now. The Reds all but had a deal to sign him, only for Palace to pull the plug at the last moment as the summer transfer window drew to a close.

Liverpool are still in for him, along with the likes of City and Arsenal, and it sounds as though Pep Guardiola's team are at the bottom of his list right now.

“On Monday night I was told by somebody who knows what’s going on at City, but also I think probably Palace as well, he said he thinks Guehi wants to stay until the summer and he prefers Liverpool [to City] in any case,” the Athletic's Sam Lee told the Let Me Talk podcast.

“Somebody else messaged me on Twitter and I know he’s very good on other club stuff, he was like ‘yeah, he wants to stay until the summer and he prefers Liverpool and Arsenal’. I was like ‘well I haven’t heard Arsenal,’ but that kind of tallies what I’d been told the night before."

That would be another coup for Liverpool, who are eager to sign Guehi. Arsenal would be a threat but it also feels as though he's more likely to force his way into the lineup at Anfield at this stage.

Especially with Virgil van Dijk turning 35 this year. Guehi would have that place as Liverpool's start centre-back - and it sounds a though he sees it that way, too.