The transfer agreement between Liverpool and Porto for Luis Díaz has already been closed. Anfield already has its Colombian Neymar. Both parties have reached an agreement for the striker. And as the English press (Mirror) has just published, it is much less than what the Portuguese club initially demanded for its player.
The reds They will finally pay 40 million euros in advance and 20 in variables. The Dragons, at first, asked for around 90 million. The first negotiation began at €70 million. But Anfield’s new transfer chief Julian Ward was able to drastically reduce Porto’s requests. Liverpool have achieved one of the great blows of this transfer window and incorporate one of the fashionable names.
Liverpool have been the first to show off their new player. The Colombian international met in Argentina with agents of the English club to close the operation. Compared to Vlahovic, the outlay is less. Juve paid 70 euros plus 10 in variables for the Serbian, but their total investment would be around 150 million euros.
At 25 years old, and after growing up in Barranquilla and hatching in Porto, he makes the leap to a great one. Liverpool weren’t the only ones keeping track of him, among others Newcastle and Tottenham, something that would have bothered Daniel Levy, Spurs owner.
Luis Díaz’s numbers in the Portuguese league have been tremendous: 14 goals and 5 assists in 18 games. We have to add two more goals in the Champions League. Now it will be necessary to see how is his adaptation to the Premier and to the orders of Jürgen Klopp.