Luis Diaz switch information: Liverpool agree £65.5m deal to promote winger to Bayern Munich

Liverpool have agreed a deal to promote Luis Diaz to Bayern Munich.

The entire charge for the deal is £65.5m.

Diaz, who has two years remaining on his Liverpool contract, now has permission to go away the membership’s Asia tour. He’s at the moment in Tokyo with the group, however will look to journey within the subsequent 24 hours.

Liverpool rejected Bayern’s preliminary advances and a suggestion believed to be within the area of £58.5m (€67m) however the German returned with a second provide of £65.5m (€75m) together with add-ons.

The Reds have accepted the provide after securing what the membership considers to be full market worth.

All through the summer time, Liverpool had been unwilling to promote a key first-team participant however Diaz and his representatives pushed for a transfer. He first signalled a want to depart in the summertime of 2024, however the membership held agency whereas assessing each the squad and the market.

Two separate makes an attempt from Liverpool to agree a contract extension failed attributable to a niche between affords and calls for, and after Diaz helped ship the membership’s twentieth Premier League title, Liverpool reluctantly agreed to his request to go away.

Diaz joined Liverpool in January 2022 for a assured £37.5m (€42.9m) cost, signing a five-and-a-half-year contract.

His departure doesn’t alter Liverpool’s recruitment plans with Hugo Ekitike already signed to strengthen the membership’s attacking depth.

Slot: Diaz was unnoticed vs AC Milan attributable to unsure future

On Saturday, Liverpool head coach Arne Slot confirmed that Diaz was unnoticed of the squad to face AC Milan attributable to hypothesis surrounding his future, however Darwin Nunez missed out attributable to harm.

“One of the positions that we didn’t have was a No 9,” Slot instructed LFC TV after the 4-2 defeat.

“We had one, Hugo [Ekitike], but he wasn’t ready to play yet. Darwin was injured. Lucho [Luis Diaz] couldn’t play as well.”

Slot reiterated this with additional feedback, including: “In Lucho’s situation it was, yeah [the reason why he was left out].

“There’s a variety of rumours round him these days and I can’t go into that. He is coaching effectively with us however now we have determined, for now, to not play him but.

“I’m used to talking to most of my players on a regular basis. Like I said, Lucho is training really well and we’ve decided that he’s not playing at the moment in the games. I cannot comment much more about that.”

Might Diaz’s sale fund a transfer for Isak?

Sky Sports activities Information’ Mark McAdam:

The truth that Liverpool made an strategy for Isak final week suggests they had been keen to pay a charge a minimum of within the area of what Newcastle are in search of, which is round £150m.

However can they afford it?

By way of participant gross sales, Liverpool have generated greater than £60m already.

The 4 gamers they’ve moved on this summer time have both been academy gamers, who characterize pure revenue below PSR, or have been offered on for large income.

Then, in the event you add within the likes of Diaz, Darwin Nunez and Harvey Elliott, these three gamers alone might increase one other £150m. That might additionally create area within the ahead line, probably.

Once you take that under consideration, their web spend probably begins trying fairly wholesome, on prime of being a extremely well-run membership.

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