{"id":559502,"date":"2020-07-24T08:55:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T12:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=559502"},"modified":"2020-07-24T08:55:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T12:55:28","slug":"report-liverpool-still-working-on-georginio-wijnaldum-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/07\/24\/report-liverpool-still-working-on-georginio-wijnaldum-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Liverpool Still Working on Georginio Wijnaldum Contract Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Premier League<\/a> title lifted, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liverpool<\/a> will now look to extend the contract of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/eb58eef0\/Georginio-Wijnaldum\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Georginio Wijnaldum<\/a>\u00a0with talks still ongoing according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1286627780353052672\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano.<\/a> The Dutchman currently has just one year remaining on his current deal, meaning he can leave on a free transfer in six months time- a situation Liverpool will be desperate to avoid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Georginio Wijnaldum Contract Talks Still Ongoing\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Time for Liverpool to Worry?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The contract talks between Liverpool and Wijnaldum have seemingly been going on for a few months now, yet no agreement has been made. The lack of news will worry Liverpool fans, who have recently seen new contracts for <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/c8387671\/Harvey-Elliot\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harvey Elliott<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/4fb9c88f\/Curtis-Jones\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Curtis Jones<\/a>, but not for Wijnaldum. One would think that, if a deal were to happen, it would have happened alongside Elliott&#8217;s and Jones&#8217; deals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The exit door remains open for the Dutchman, who could replicate <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/a65ce836\/Emre-Can\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emre Can&#8217;s<\/a> decision in 2018 by running down his contract.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/77e84962\/Thiago-Alcantara\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thiago\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Alc\u00e1ntara\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the constant <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LFCTransferRoom\/status\/1286331596543537159\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subject of Liverpool transfer rumours,<\/a> too, the Reds may already be preparing for life without Wijnaldum. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1286627780353052672\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> has, however, confirmed that a bid is yet to be made by Liverpool for Thiago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Jurgen Klopp will be keen to complete Wijnaldum&#8217;s contract extension as soon as possible to put an end to any rumours surrounding the Dutchman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Wijnaldum an Integral Yet Underrated Part of Liverpool Squad<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Since the return of the Premier League, <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/f25c8e3a\/Naby-Keita\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Naby Keita<\/a> has rightfully been the constant name praised by Liverpool fans. The Guinea international has finally started to show his best form in a Liverpool shirt. But, as the praise for Keita has arrived, so has the negativity aimed at Wijnaldum. This comes in spite of the Dutchman&#8217;s clear importance to Jurgen Klopp&#8217;s side as proven against Barcelona last season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Klopp will be desperate to keep a hold of one of the more experienced midfielders in the Liverpool ranks, and the man moulded for the big occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"p70UmFX3Qw5N07Fa2SAxLw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1255170391\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'p70UmFX3Qw5N07Fa2SAxLw',sig:'bFcfi1mQiD5YSuOmMe-n3os9IXTeYe-jQjJ_VqWXn20=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1255170391',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Premier League title lifted, Liverpool will now look to extend the contract of Georginio Wijnaldum\u00a0with talks still ongoing according to Fabrizio Romano. The Dutchman currently has just one year remaining on his current deal, meaning he can leave on a free transfer in six months time- a situation Liverpool will be desperate to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3402,"featured_media":559512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,2,16,3],"tags":[4063,289,126,95,136],"class_list":["post-559502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","category-liverpool","category-premier-league","tag-2019-20-premier-league","tag-georginio-wijnaldum","tag-jurgen-klopp","tag-liverpool","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}