The German international could be set for a new four-year,
£100k per week contract.
Liverpool midfielder Emre Can is
set to sign a new Liverpool contract paying him around £100k per week and
running through the summer of 2021. Or at least he is if reports in Italy are
to be believed. Which, its surface at least, seems a bit of a stretch. The
context, though, matters.
And the context here is that Juventus are abandoning their
pursuit of the 23-year-old German international after they received word that
he was certain now to remain at his current club as a new deal had been agreed
in principle and all that was left to go on it were a few small formalities.
That story has begun to spread, from Tutto Mercato Web to the
English press, and Liverpool fans will now have to hope things work out the way
the often unreliable Italian football press believe they will, and that the
young midfielder will shortly sign a deal to keep him at the club heading into
his prime years.
Liverpool had previously signalled that they had no desire to
sell Can this summer despite that he was heading into the final year of his
current deal, with Jürgen Klopp preferring to risk loosing him on a free next
summer to selling him for a fee this year.
Still, that hadn’t stopped the talk of a potential
transfer—especially in Italy—or the rumblings around the club that suggested a
new deal was a priority for the club despite a frustrating few months of
negotiations where the parties had failed to find common ground on the wage
front.
After a slow start to last season, in the end Can managed five
goals and three assists in 40 total appearances. With continuing injury
concerns surrounding captain Jordan Henderson, many will expect Can to end up
the club’s first choice for the base of Klopp’s single-pivot midfield next
season
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