Liverpool youngster Tyler Morton is wanted by RB Leipzig on a permanent transfer and could fetch more than £20m
Liverpool youngster Tyler Morton is attracting interest from clubs in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and the Premier League.
Bundesliga team RB Leipzig have registered the greatest interest in the 21-year-old midfielder after consecutive seasons on loan in the Championship.
Morton spent the last two campaigns on loan in the second division with Blackburn Rovers and Hull City, making a combined total of 87 appearances with three goals and nine assists.
The 21-year-old has a total of nine senior appearances in Liverpoolall in the 2021/22 season, and his last game in the Reds shirt was in March 2022 in the FA Cup.
The times They report that there is great interest from “virtually all clubs” in the Championship in getting the Liverpool star back on loan this summer.
However, there is every chance that the Reds will cash in, with Sevilla, Feyenoord, Eintracht Frankfurt and several Premier League sides also interested.
His future may be in the hands of the new Liverpool manager Arne Slotwho will meet with most of his players when they report for preseason training in early July.
But The return of transfer guru Michael Edwards I could well see the Merseyside club complete another shrewd deal to help boost their coffers this summer.
Following the news of Jurgen Klopp's departure as manager, former sporting director Edwards has returned as Liverpool's new chief executive of football.
Edwards' best work in his previous stage was, without a doubt, selling Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona for 142 million pounds, which allowed Klopp to build a team that went on to collect Premier League and Champions League titles. plus a complete collection of national cups, the FIFA Club World Cup. UEFA Cup and Super Cup.
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But he also did business with the club's promising academy players and fringe stars, as he helped make Liverpool's fortune with a long list of shrewd sales.
Among that list of smart deals was the sale of forwards Danny Ings, Dominic Solanke and Rhian Brewster, goalkeeper Danny Ward and defender Ki-Jana Hoever for a combined £88.5m.
Hoever's departure to Wolves also saw Diogo Jota move the other way, with the deal seeing Liverpool pay around £30m net for the Portuguese star.
The current price tag for Morton, who signed a new long-term contract with Liverpool just 18 months ago, is unclear.
But with a defender Sepp van den Berg would be valued at £20mIt would be fair to say that the Reds wouldn't let another homegrown talent come cheap.
While Championship clubs are keen to sign the England under-21 international on loan, Leipzig are claimed to be interested in a permanent transfer.
Leipzig finished fourth in the Bundesliga last season, securing the Champions League for next campaign, which could influence Morton's decision on where he wants to play in 2024/25.
The two clubs also have a healthy commercial relationship, having agreed a £60million deal for Dominik Szoboszlai last summer, while Fabio Carvalho also moved to the German club on loan.
