Marseille watched Dembele on Sunday against Hamilton and are thought to be considering a late bid for the striker. I can't imagine we'll let him go without a replacement and we won't have time to bring anyone in if they leave it too late. The window closes this Friday. We need to have a busy week as it is without having to worry about replacing a striker as well!
Boyata's future is still up in the air but at the moment it looks like he could end up staying! Rodgers praised his goal and performance in the Hamilton game and said he couldn't leave out a player of Boyata's class. However he confirmed that with both Hendry and Simunovic currently injured as well as Compper being a no-show for far too long now, Rodgers confirmed we're looking to add a new player.
On defenders we've been linked with a loan move for Filip Benkovic. We have been linked with him for a few years since he broke into the Dinamo Zagreb team to replace Simunovic. However he has just joined Leicester in a £13m deal (which shows why we weren't able to sign him) but they've bought him to be back-up or as a future CB, an investment in the future.....just seems bizarre! So with that being their mindset we're keen to take him on loan and get a top CB without having to fork out the money for one.
Another CB we're linked with is a French U20 star, Harold Moukoudi. The 20 year old plays for AC Le Havre in the French Ligue2 and has 1 year left on his contract. He's valued at £900k on transfermarkt but the club value him at around £5m! Apparently this is the way football is going, even players with 1 year left on their contract are valued at about 5 times what transfermarkt thinks! Absolutely bonkers! Anyway, he looks to have good potential, he's a big unit of a CB and seems to communicate well and try and organise which would be good with Ajer as he is similar. He doesn't look the most mobile but with other more mobile players around him that shouldn't be too much of a problem. However the video I found of him doesn't show him at his best defending, he does get a goal in the video but the defending you see of him is not that impressive.
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We're also linked with Samir Memisevic, the 25 year old CB at FC Groningen apparently put in a man of the match performance for his club at the weekend. There's talk of him being our new VVD but VVD was younger than Memisevic so it's a different sort of situation. if Memisevic comes in then he'll be here for a while, unlikely to be the sort of player we sell on for a profit!