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After Caicedo and Lavia, another Liverpool transfer target says he wants to join Chelsea klopp’s get angry and let go

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September 26, 2023

After Caicedo and Lavia, another Liverpool transfer target says he wants to join Chelsea klopp’s get angry and let go

Chelsea fans had a lot of fun in the summer after luring Moises Caicedo and Romeo Lavia away from Liverpool, and they could do that again now with Patrick Dorgu.

The Reds’ top two midfield targets in the summer were Caicedo and Lavia. They went big on both of them, but the two players decided to reject Jurgen Klopp and moved to Chelsea instead.

History could repeat itself soon.

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Liverpool target Patrick Dorgu says his dream is to play for Chelsea

Liverpool are among many clubs interested in signing Leece’s Patrick Dorgu.

The 18-year-old is a huge talent. He made his Serie A debut for Leece at the start of this season, but things could have been very different had his agent not intervened in the summer.

In June, Dorgu’s agent Kingsley Ogbodo claimed that Liverpool really wanted to sign him after watching him play. He revealed that Manchester City and Barcelona were also interested in him.

However, Ogbodo claims he advised his young client to snub Liverpool as moving there would mean he would only play for the U23s, not the first team.

Liverpool, Manchester City and Barcelona are still said to be watching young Dorgu, but the defender has his eye on another Premier League – he has come out and claimed that his dream is to play for Chelsea.

Dorgu told Ekstra Bladet: “Chelsea is my dream to play for.

“I’ve been a fan of them for over ten years, so playing for them would be a huge dream.”

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The last thing Liverpool fans would want to see is for another one of their targets to join Chelsea.

The Reds were so close to signing Moises Caicedo in the summer. They had a deal agreed with Brighton and Hove Albion, who had given the Ecuadorian permission to go and have a medical at Anfield.

However, just when the move looked like a formality, Caicedo decided that he did not want to join Liverpool – he only wanted to sign for Chelsea. Romeo Lavia did the same soon after, dealing a huge blow to Klopp’s side.

Liverpool recovered well in the window, but thinking about those crazy few days still irks many of their fans.

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Sam Allardyce has admitted 27-year-old Tottenham signed last year ‘looks like a bargain now’

Ben Evans

Thu 21 September 2023 18:45, UK

Sam Allardyce has admitted that Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Yves Bissouma has really impressed him this season.

Allardyce was speaking on the No Tippy Tappy Podcast about the Malian international.

Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou has completely transformed the feeling around the club in a matter of months.

After the negativity and weariness under Antonio Conte, a complete paradigm shift was needed in North London.

Not only has Postecoglou changed the way Spurs play, he’s completely changed the fortunes of many of his players.

There was a lot of hope around the signing of Yves Bissouma last summer when he arrived from Brighton for £25m.

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However, he never really got going under Conte who preferred Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and Rodrigo Bentancur in midfield.

Postecoglou has given Bissouma a new lease of life at Tottenham and Allardyce thinks he looks like a bargain now.

He even commented on his performance on the final day of the season when Spurs dismantled Leeds and confirmed their relegation.

Allardyce hails Tottenham star Bissouma

Talking about the 27-year-old, Allardyce said: “I think I said before and I watched him in his last game against Leeds when I was there last season.

“They thrashed us on the day and he was part of that ability that you saw and thought, well one season in, new manager brings the best out of him, knows what Tottenham is about now.

“Sometimes to ask a player to move and everybody expects that they’re going to move into a new football club and expect them to be what they were at the previous football club and often it can take a good year or two years before you see their very, very best.

“Obviously, nobody’s patient enough to do that these days. He’s come to terms with Tottenham and what’s expected and the manager’s brought the best out of him so he looks like a bargain now.”

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Plenty of Tottenham fans will agree with Allardyce that Bissouma looks like a fantastic signing now.

He’s the perfect example of a player needing the right environment around him and plenty of time to settle in to play his best football.

Postecoglou has backed Bissouma to get even better this season which is an exciting prospect for Spurs fans.

He’ll be hoping to play his way into Tottenham folklore with a match-winning performance against Arsenal this weekend.

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