Whereas Sepp van den Berg is presently on tour with Liverpool in america, the defender continues to be topic of switch curiosity forward of a probable transfer.
Van den Berg is one among 28 gamers who flew to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, and is anticipated to begin towards Actual Betis within the membership’s first official pleasant of pre-season.
He does so with main doubts over his future at Liverpool, having already criticised the membership with claims they had been pricing him out of a switch with a £20 million valuation.
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PSV Eindhoven are reported to carry the strongest curiosity in a deal, although the Reds have already rejected bids from each Mainz and Wolfsburg this summer time.
And in response to newspaper Eindhovens Dagblad, the Eredivisie membership are ready to attend till later in the summertime to safe his signing – in a package deal that might break their switch report.
Journalist Rik Elfrink writes that PSV “proceed to push” for the 22-year-old, however “don’t anticipate a switch to be accomplished within the brief time period.”
Any deal is more likely to happen “additional into August,” when Liverpool return from the US, with PSV able to current a “hefty provide” – although they might cease wanting €20 million (£16.8m).
Van den Berg, it’s claimed, “could be ‘in’ for the step to the Eredivisie,” with Elfrink speculating that it may pave the best way for a Netherlands call-up.
Earlier studies from Eindhovens Dagblad claimed that PSV could be prepared to pay nearer to €16 million (£13.4m) for his companies.
That may symbolize a club-record switch, with their most costly outlays up to now being €15 million every to signal Hirving Lozano and Jerdy Schouten in 2023.
PSV contemplate the possible arrival of Van den Berg as rendering their summer time enterprise “virtually full,” with the membership clearly banking on him becoming a member of Peter Bosz’s squad.
Whereas the centre-back is being given an opportunity to impress in pre-season, the expectation is that he might be allowed to depart Liverpool this summer time.
This comes with Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate and Joe Gomez all as a consequence of rejoin Jarell Quansah within the defensive ranks later in pre-season, whereas teenager Amara Nallo can be primed to step up.
A lot will rely on the dimensions of affords made for Van den Berg, after all, with Liverpool additionally set to half methods with Nat Phillips, Rhys Williams and Billy Koumetio this summer time.
Williams and Koumetio are already attracting curiosity from quite a few golf equipment in England, Scotland, France and Turkiye.
