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The transfer chatter has Bayern Munich and new manager Vincent Kompany targeting Liverpool defender Joe Gomez.
Joe Gomez is a very good defender as well as a player who brings added value to a squad through by way of his versatility, with the 27-year-old Englishman able to capably line up at centre half and either fullback position as well as to even fill in at the base of midfield in a pinch.
For a side like Liverpool, though, as valuable as he is it could be the case Gomez will never realistically be able to establish himself as first choice at any position, something that over the years has led to occasional bouts of speculation he could seek a transfer.
Now, though, The Mirror are claiming he’s a transfer target for Bayern Munich—though also that Liverpool would reject any approach by them out of hand. Which, not to put too fine a point on it, is a rumour that seems more than a little odd from the perspectives of either Bayern or Gomez.
For Gomez it’s odd as it wouldn’t improve his path to playing time. And for Bayern, Gomez wouldn’t be a nailed-on starter. As for Liverpool, well, at least the part where they would reject any approach makes sense given they’d be losing a quite useful homegrown player in the scenario.
It’s that homegrown status in particular that would, to anyone who’s paid attention to transfers at any point in the past, cause problems, raising the player’s value significantly to Liverpool and meaning Bayern would have to pay a relatively inflated fee.
Add in that for Gomez such a transfer would represent a lateral move without either the promise of more minutes or higher wages and, honestly, it’s hard to really figure out how this rumour ever came to be in the first place.
Still, one supposes that Bayern paying over the odds to sign Joe Gomez would represent more sensible business than their recent, eyebrow-raising desperation hire of Vincent Kompany as manager, so if that’s the baseline hey you never know welcome to Bavaria, Joe.
