Liverpool and Manchester Metropolis have endured a bitter rivalry over the previous few years and look set to struggle it out for the Premier League this season and Pep Guardiola is plotting to seize certainly one of our former gamers.
Based on footballtransfers.com: ‘Sources have knowledgeable us that the Spaniard has had a watch on Brentford’s Sepp van den Berg for the reason that defender was registered with Liverpool however on mortgage at Preston North Finish.
‘The centre-back caught his eye throughout a pre-season pleasant in 2021 and he has been on Guardiola’s radar ever since.’
Given the choice by Arne Slot to permit the defender to depart this summer time, it might be a serious shock to then see him make a transfer to the Etihad Stadium.
Maybe some would additionally then query as to how the Reds deemed the Dutchman surplus to requirement however the champions then have an interest sufficient to make a transfer so quickly after.
There’s already one former participant who referred to as Anfield their dwelling who’s at the moment taking part in for the staff in sky blue and that’s Scott Carson, so the 22-year-old wouldn’t be alone in making this transfer.
Sepp van den Berg shifting to Manchester Metropolis can be an enormous shock
It was reported in the summertime that the previous Preston loanee had exceeded the expectations our new coaching staff had of him however clearly not sufficient to make sure he didn’t depart.
What this will additionally recommend although is that he left Merseyside looking for common soccer and if we are able to’t provide that, it’s unlikely that will probably be on supplied with the Residents both.
Add on a clear frustration at the price tag we set for our former participant, plainly even he wouldn’t anticipate that one other membership would then instantly prize him away from the Bees who matched our valuation.
We’ll file this hearsay below the ‘in all probability not going to occur’ class.
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