Paris Saint-Germain and Napoli Reportedly Agree Kvaratskhelia Transfer
Yesterday at 11:32 AM
Liverpool chose to publicly link themselves with the €70M rated Georgian international left winger late last week.
A week ago, nobody thought that €70M rated 23-year-old Georgia and Napoli left winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia was a player Liverpool were targeting.
A week ago, nobody would have been surprised or disappointed if they'd been told that a week later he would be on the verge of completing a move to Paris Saint-Germain after the French and Italian sides reached a full agreement over his transfer.
Late last week, though, Liverpool chose to make their interest in Kvaratskhelia public, sharing it with arguably the two best-connected journalists when it comes to Liverpool transfer stories.
In retrospect, that appears to be something they perhaps shouldn't do, looking as it does today like an unforced error with the player's move to Paris all but wrapped up.
A shock late swoop could yet flip the narrative on its head, but as thing stand today it's difficult to understand what the club's goals might have been. Some would suggest that claimed interest was never genuine—that it was always a distraction.
A distraction from what, exactly—last summer's transfer failures, what's expected to be a quiet January, or the ongoing contract disaster of Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk, and Trent Alexanser-Arnold entering the final months of their contracts—isn't entirely clear.
The other problem with the suggestion rumours linking the Reds with Kvaratskhelia were always meant as a distraction is if that's what it was he was always going to end up at PSG, and sooner than later.
When that happened, as it looks about to, Liverpool going out of their way to link themselves to him was never going to look anything other than a little embarrassing.
