Liverpool's Urgent Pursuit of Yan Diomande: €100m Bid Rejected
Liverpool have made their move. Now they need to find out how serious RB Leipzig really are about keeping Yan Diomande.
The Premier League club have already seen a huge offer turned away, but this is not another Alexander Isak-style summer saga in the making. Not this time.
Liverpool push hard for Salah heir
With Mohamed Salah gone after his final game at the end of last season and Cody Gakpo struggling to convince, Liverpool’s need for a new right-sided star is blunt and immediate. Victor Munoz has arrived from Osasuna, a smart addition for the future, but nobody inside Anfield is pretending that changes the plan at the top of the market.
Diomande is that plan.
Liverpool tabled a bid worth €100m last week. The structure, as revealed by Ben Jacobs, was €80m guaranteed plus €20m in add-ons, not the previously reported €90m plus €10m. Leipzig rejected it quickly.
The response from Merseyside? Go again.
“Liverpool will be very aggressive”
Transfer specialist Fabrizio Romano laid out the mood inside Liverpool’s recruitment team on his YouTube channel. The first offer has gone, but the intent has not.
“Liverpool had a bid rejected of €100m, but Liverpool will bid again, there is no doubt,” he said, detailing how the club are working “behind the scenes” to lock Diomande down with a strong financial package on the player side.
Liverpool are not just testing the water. They are trying to drag the deal into their orbit, pushing hard on salary and contract terms to make sure that, if Leipzig open the door, Diomande is already walking through it.
Leipzig, though, have their own plan.
They want to keep the winger, hand him a new contract, bump his salary, and let him attack the Champions League with them before reassessing next summer. From their perspective, holding Diomande for another year is “a smart decision” – a season of European football, a higher profile, and then, potentially, an even bigger market.
For now, they are insisting he stays.
No repeat of the Isak waiting game
This is where Liverpool’s stance shifts from last summer. With Alexander Isak, they waited. And waited. Newcastle’s incoming business complicated the timeline and Liverpool were prepared to sit tight because of Isak’s age, form and proven Premier League record.
Diomande is different. So is the situation around him.
Jacobs reports that Liverpool do not intend to let this chase drift into August. The urgency in wide areas is sharper now; the Salah gap is real, and the club are not willing to spend another pre-season wondering who will start on the right flank.
If Leipzig refuse to engage in proper negotiations, Liverpool will not hang around out of pride. They will walk away.
That threat carries weight because the alternatives are already lined up.
Alternatives on the table – and PSG in the background
Jacobs lists Said El Mala, Yankuba Minteh and Matias Fernandez-Pardo among the names under active consideration, with Bradley Barcola also “appreciated” by the club. None of them are decoys. They are live options if Leipzig keep the door bolted.
Paris Saint-Germain lurk in the background as another potential bidder for Diomande, but Liverpool sense optimism on one key front: the player is understood to be keen on the move to Anfield.
That gives Liverpool leverage on the “player side”, where they are working intensely. It does not, on its own, force Leipzig to sell.
So the next step is clear. Liverpool will return with a bigger proposal, one that tops the €100m package already turned down, and test just how firm Leipzig’s stance really is.
If the Bundesliga club still refuse to talk, Liverpool will pivot. Quickly.
The message from Anfield is simple: this chase will be decisive, not endless.
