Liverpool in for surprise €20m transfer but Arsenal will put up a fight

Liverpool are in for a transfer that no one saw coming. Arsenal, however, won't make it easy for them.

Liverpool's planning for the summer transfer window is firmly underway. In truth, it's been underway for a while and even their sole January deal was for the later window.

The Reds signed Jeremy Jacquet from Rennes on deadline day in a deal that won't go through until the summer. Jacquet will arrive and join up with the squad for pre-season.

Now, that's just phase one. Liverpool certainly have more to do if they're to get things back on track, given their enormous spend last summer has failed to deliver the results they hoped for.

More rebuilding is necessary - both incomings and outgoings. But one reported deal has caught us all off-guard.

Liverpool in for Konstantinos Tzolakis

Liverpool are looking at a deal for Olympiakos goalkeeper Konstantinos Tzolakis, says Arena Napoli. They’re reporting on Napoli’s interest in the 23-year-old and it seems there’s a battle for the player.

Arsenal are also in for Tzolakis, with his club wanting around €20m to get a deal done. Olympiakos owner, Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis, is hoping the interest from the Premier League pair is real, given they’d almost certainly end up paying far more than Napoli.

But it’s a surprising one from Liverpool. Tzolakis will surely only move somewhere that he has a proper pathway to the first-team but the Reds have both Alisson Becker and Giorgi Mamardashvili in the way.

Alisson’s contract does expire next year, however. It could be that Tzolaki is a replacement for the Brazilian - someone who could rival Mamardashvili for a first-team place.

It feels like a real gamble, though. €20m for a Greek Super League goalkeeper to potentially be the no1? It doesn’t necessarily fit in with Liverpool’s transfer plans of late.

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