Liverpool manager Arne Slot has dismissed options that Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen was a severe transfer goal for the Premier League champions during the summer season window.
Recall that Osimhen was linked with Premier League golf equipment like Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea in the summer season transfer window earlier than he accomplished a record-breaking transfer transfer to Galatasaray.
Talking at his pre-match press convention forward of Liverpool’s UEFA Champions League tie with Galatasaray on Tuesday, Slot clarified that his staff’s plans during the summer season transfer window have been centred round signing the likes of Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike, following the departure of Darwin Núñez to Saudi Arabia and the tragic demise of Diogo Jota.
When requested whether or not Osimhen was on the record of gamers focused by Liverpool during the summer season, Slot instructed reporters at his pre-match press convention: “Now we have added two quantity nines [Isak and Ekitike].
“Sadly, it’s not the proper phrase I ought to use due to an unlimited tragedy that occurred with Diogo Jota. In the long run, we needed to convey in two quantity nines.
“But it surely was at all times clear to us that from the beginning [of the summer window] we needed to convey in these two [Isak and Ekitike] if we wanted to.”
