Rumour Mongering: Khvicha Kvaratskhelia Agrees Personal Terms with PSG
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The time to swoop is now if Liverpool are in fact interested in the Napoli and Georgia winger.
If Liverpool have any intention of trying to swoop their way to a gazumping in the case of 23-year-old Napoli and Georgia winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, they're going to have to move quickly following claims the player has agreed personal terms with Paris Saint-Germain.
While the clubs have yet to agree a fee, there are suggestions they might not be all that far apart in valuation, with Napoli seeking €80M (£67M) while PSG have signalled they would pay around €75M (£63), though potentially while seeking to send a player such as Milan Škriniar in the other direction to help cover the cost.
Reports have set Kvaratskhelia's Napoli wage in the £30-45k per week region, and if PSG have in fact offered a five-year deal worth four to five times that amount it would not seem a wage that would be impossible for Liverpool to meet.
While there may be some skepticism about Liverpool's need to sign another right-footed winger who prefers to play on the left, there can be little doubt that dual reports from club-connected journalists David Ornstein of The Athletic and Paul Joyce of The Times this past Thursday mean they hold genuine interest.
At the time, Napoli's fee demands and the player's likely wage demands were broadly known—and those have not changed following today's claims he has agreed personal terms with PSG. It would be hard, then, to square Thursday's reports of Liverpool's interest with them not moving now.
Which can only leave us to wait and see now whether the Reds do in in fact make a push to sign Kvaratskhelia. Alternately, we'll be left to try to figure out why, having signalled their interest, they didn't if the player finalizes his move to PSG in the coming days.
