Exclusive: Liverpool aiming to move ahead of Chelsea & Man City in race for CB transfer

Bayer Leverkusen defender Piero Hincapie is attracting sturdy curiosity from prime European golf equipment corresponding to Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester Metropolis, CaughtOffside understands.

The proficient 21-year-old Ecuador worldwide seems like one of many best younger centre-backs within the recreation for the time being, and sources with an in depth understanding of the participant’s state of affairs have knowledgeable CaughtOffside that Liverpool are working to maneuver forward of their rivals to signal him as a precedence.

Jurgen Klopp is known to be a giant fan of Hincapie, who has been one in every of plenty of thrilling performers in Xabi Alonso’s Leverkusen facet this season, together with Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong.

Many scouts from Europe’s elite golf equipment regard Hincapie as a stand-out participant on this spectacular Leverkusen facet, and Liverpool are prioritising a younger defender of his calibre to come back in because the likes of Virgil van Dijk and Joel Matip aren’t getting any youthful.

Sources really feel Liverpool are displaying the strongest curiosity to this point, however Leverkusen have the teen tied all the way down to a contract till 2027 and hope to maintain him for at the least yet one more season. Whereas there may be presently a reluctance to set an asking value, it’s felt that it might take at the least €70m for the membership to even take into account letting the participant go.

There has not been any concrete contact but by LFC, but it surely stays to be seen if that strain may improve within the months forward, because it’s additionally felt that Leverkusen could in the end find yourself backing down from their stance on the participant in the event that they obtain an appropriate price.

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Chelsea even have an curiosity in Hincapie, however must promote earlier than they will purchase resulting from Monetary Honest Play. It stays the case that Trevoh Chalobah is anticipated to depart the Blues this January, whereas doubts additionally stay over Ian Maatsen, with these two gamers probably enhancing the membership’s state of affairs in that respect.

Man Metropolis are additionally carefully monitoring Hincapie’s state of affairs, however for now all the pieces signifies that will probably be Liverpool who’re the primary staff to look at on this potential switch battle.