Transfer Window Update: Liverpool go east for big buy

Betting Tips | Article posted on January 29th, 2025

“Konoplyanka, who has played 35 times for Ukraine despite his relative youth, could cost as much as £16 million.”

Liverpool have centred their search for an attacking arrival on Ukraine, while a hectic few days await Fulham…
Just when Liverpool fans thought that Premier League matchday 23 couldn’t get any more gleeful, Brendan Rodgers followed the 4-0 dissection of Everton by expressing optimism that they will have “a major signing before the window shuts”.
The Reds have been frustrated so far in their January plans, with Chelsea beating them to Mohamed Salah, Barcelona refusing to release Cristian Tello and no joy in their Yann M’Vila pursuit either.
So who is it that Rodgers is hoping to secure before Friday’s deadline? The latest name in the frame is Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk winger Yevhen Konoplyanka.
The 24-year-old, who has played 35 times for Ukraine despite his relative youth, could cost as much as £16 million. It is reported that a wide forward is the priority over a central midfielder or left back.
Liverpool gave their 1.774/5-rated top-four ambitions a huge boost with Tuesday’s Merseyside derby rout, and if Man City do them a favour with a win at Tottenham at 1.981/1, they will have a three-point cushion with 15 to play.
Unusually, Fulham are protagonists in nearly every other high-profile transfer saga, most intriguingly harbouring an interest in Champions League-accredited Olympiakos striker Kostantinos Mitroglou.
The Greek international has earned the tag “Mitrogol” thanks to his Superleague Greece chart-topping 14 goals in nine starts, also contributing an away Champions League hat-trick at Anderlecht and five World Cup qualifying net-ripplers.
Encouraging for the Cottagers, Olympiakos have signalled a willingness to do business, though more obstructively, they insist that it will take a bid in excess of £12 million to seal a deal for the 25-year-old.
Rene Meulensteen has decided that if he is to take from the Champions League, it is only right to give something back, scheming to relinquish on-loan Adel Taarabt, who has made just seven league starts and failed to score outside of the Capital One Cup, to AC Milan.
To emphasise how unbothered they are about losing the erratic Moroccan, they are apparently keen to take a defender who has hardly played in the past 12 months in exchange in Cristian Zaccardo.
The final whisper is that they will use Tottenham’s alleged interest in a Dimitar Berbatov reunion as leverage to land Lewis Holtby. It is a long shot, but perhaps possible as a loan and not a permanent swap. Holtby’s girlfriend recently moved to London, lessening the likelihood of a Bundesliga return.
Fulham are 1.8810/11 relegation favourites without even being in the drop zone after their 2-0 defeat at Swansea, yet adding Mitroglou and Holtby would significantly enhance their survival prospects. Berbatov is