Liverpool Close to €150M Bradley Barcola Move as PSG Has Replacements Ready

The Bradley Barcola saga suddenly sped up on Friday after the announcement of the imminent arrival of Maghnes Akliouche and Mika Godts at PSG. According to the English media, Liverpool is preparing a €150 million offer.

Liverpool's executives understood that Paris Saint-Germain was clearly preparing to offload Barcola, since, in the space of a few hours, it was learned that Akliouche was set to join PSG in the coming days and that Luis Campos was also finalizing the arrival of Godts, the young Belgian international forward from Ajax.

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In other words, things are being put in place to consider a departure of the former Lyon player, even if Luis Enrique will not push the latter out.

On the English media side, there is a sense that Liverpool executives are close to making a first major offer to the two-time defending European champion, as the Liverpool Echo confirmed this Saturday.

The Liverpool outlet confirms that the Reds do not want to mess up this file and, above all, do not want to waste too much time on this operation, with the ghost of the chaotic transfer of Alexander Isak still in people's minds.

Isaac Seelochan, a journalist for the cited outlet, confirms that the English club will not play the haggling game and will put € 150 million on the table, the amount Paris Saint-Germain is asking to let Bradley Barcola leave.

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The Reds' executives want to reach an agreement with Nasser Al Khelaifi quickly so that the French international can take part in as much of the summer preparation as possible.

Questioned by the Liverpool Echo, Emile Heskey, a living legend of the Mersey club, believes that this €150 million will be very well spent if it is used to sign Bradley Barcola.

"I love this idea. If there was someone who could bring us that fighting spirit, that tenacity and that straightforwardness on the wing, as we had with Mane and Diaz, it is Barcola. He is very direct, he is very, very fast, and the fact is that he comes from a team that, I would say, looks like Liverpool, where we play pressing-based football," the former English international forward of Liverpool said.

It is a bit sad for PSG fans that Barcola is apparently set to leave. He was a key part of Enrique's successful project. But on the other hand, both Akliouche and Godts seem to have the potential to reach an elite level at Paris. Let's see how it goes.

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