BARCELONA TRANSFER NEWS LIVE: Updates on Coutinho, Dembele and more…
Saturday August 26
Cameron on Coutinho
11:45: Geoff Cameron says he wouldn’t refuse a move to Barcelona if they came knocking, as Philippe Coutinho seeks to leave Liverpool for the Nou Camp.
“They still have £150m to spend. For me if I’m Coutinho you want to go,” Stoke defender Cameron said on 5Live.
“It’s an opportunity you can’t turn down.
“How often does Barcelona come knocking asking you to replace the likes of Neymar, or be an influential player?
“If he doesn’t go it’s going to be hard mentally knowing that the club kind of turned you down a little bit.”
LeBron James wants Coutinho
11:30: LeBron James has reportedly asked Liverpool to sell Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona.
In one of the strangest claims of the summer, Barcelona-based newspaper Mundo Deportivo claim basketball legend James has waded into the transfer saga.
James has been a Liverpool shareholder since 2011 and Mundo Deportivo claim he has asked Fenway Sports Group to agree the sale of Coutinho.
James yesterday posted an instagram picture of himself in a Barcelona shirt with the caption: “Even the Shade can’t stop my Shine!! Double entendre for y’all who can keep up!”
PSG reject Di Maria bid
11:00: Paris Saint-Germain have rejected a £32.4million but from Barcelona for Angel Di Maria.
Di Maria is Barca’s second-choice target if Liverpool refuse to sell Philippe Coutinho.
The former Real Madrid and Manchester United player is free to leave PSG following Neymar’s arrival.
The expected signing of Kylian Mbappe means PSG are supposedly keen to sell Di Maria.
But Spanish newspaper AS claim an opening offer for the Argentine has been rejected by the Ligue 1 side.