{"id":625608,"date":"2023-07-26T02:07:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T06:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=625608"},"modified":"2023-07-25T17:47:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T21:47:28","slug":"liverpool-romeo-lavia-green-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/26\/liverpool-romeo-lavia-green-light\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wants to Join Liverpool&#8217;: &#8216;Perfect&#8217; Star Green Lights Anfield Move With Bid Already Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Romeo Lavia has made it clear he &#8220;wants to join Liverpool&#8221; this summer and has even given the green light to the Merseyside outfit, says <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Plettigoal\/status\/1683733777632092162\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florian Plettenberg<\/a>, with other reports suggesting a bid has already been made for the Belgian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[metabet_core_side_odds_tile query=&#8221;soe\/liverpool&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; rows=&#8221;10&#8243; style=&#8221;fraction&#8221; site_id=&#8221;lastwordonsports&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Romeo Lavia to Liverpool Given Green Light by Player<\/h2>\n<h3>What&#8217;s the Latest on the Romeo Lavia to Liverpool Deal?<\/h3>\n<p>Liverpool&#8217;s opening bid of &#8220;around \u00a337 million&#8221; has been rejected reports <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein\/status\/1683844686941679618\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Ornstein<\/a>. Southampton are standing firm on their \u00a350 million valuation.<\/p>\n<p>Lavia has now shown his keen interest in the move by putting his cards on the table and giving Liverpool the green light. This won&#8217;t come as a surprise considering his quality and age, and the fact that Southampton were relegated last season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch:\u00a0<\/strong>Why Romeo Lavia will be perfect for Jurgen Klopp<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Romeo Lavia is the Perfect Liverpool Player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sYh_WYecyco?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1683816495778762752\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> reports that talks have been ongoing on the player&#8217;s side for over a month. Jason Wilcox is now said to be leading the negotiations for Southampton and he&#8217;s insisting on a package deal worth \u00a350 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lavia featured heavily and was one of the standout performers in a struggling Southampton side last season. Showing promise in his first senior campaign has led to multiple clubs keeping him on their radar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The youngster joined the south coast side last year from Manchester City and instantly showed why he\u2019s one of the most sought-after talents in Europe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/21\/liverpool-close-to-selling-fabinho\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool finalising exit for &#8220;outstanding&#8221; player<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Lavia to Complete Liverpool&#8217;s New Midfield Trio<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jurgen Klopp has already bolstered his midfield this summer with big-money moves for Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai. These two acquisitions should prove instrumental in Liverpool&#8217;s potential resurgence next season, as the midfield was a notable weak point across most of last term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/25\/romeo-lavia-liverpool-transfer-update-romano\/\" target=\"_self\">Fabrizio Romano drops intriguing update on \u00a350 million &#8220;wonderkid&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lavia could provide Klopp with the final piece of his midfield jigsaw, seen by some as the<a href=\"https:\/\/anfieldindex.com\/56760\/romeo-lavia-the-perfect-fabinho-successor.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> &#8220;perfect&#8221;<\/a> successor to Fabinho, and a top-quality player in his own right.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The youngster is evidently showing keen interest in a move to Liverpool with the length of the negotiations, and the \u00a350 million package deal put forward by Jason Wilcox of Southampton isn&#8217;t too far away from Liverpool&#8217;s current valuation of the youngster. All signs point to this being a very doable deal for the Anfield side, but only time will tell whether they can get it done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/6Bu2Mg\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darren Brown<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romeo Lavia has made it clear he &#8220;wants to join Liverpool&#8221; this summer and has even given the green light to the Merseyside outfit, says Florian Plettenberg, with other reports suggesting a bid has already been made for the Belgian. 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