Real Madrid 'to offer Lucas Vazquez in player-plus-cash deal for Liverpool's Mo Salah'
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Real Madrid are readying a player-plus-cash deal to take Mo Salah to the Bernabeu - and are willing to offload Lucas Vazquez in the other direction.
That is according to Don Balon, who say Los Blancos are serious about their interest in the Egyptian who has taken the Premier League by storm this season.
He tops the goal charts with 13 strikes and has a further six in all competitions, sitting on 19 goals from 24 appearances in a Reds shirt so far.
Zinedine Zidane reportedly wants attacking reinforcements with Real sitting eight points adrift of La Liga leaders Barcelona.
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Collymore: Klopp let mask slip to show cowardice
Do I believe Everton should have been awarded a penalty when striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin went down under a challenge from Liverpool’s Dejan Lovren on Sunday?
No, I don’t.
Calvert-Lewin took a step to the right to bump off the Croatian and that legitimised the fall.
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So I can understand why Jurgen Klopp was frustrated.
But what he should have said in his post-match interview after the 1-1 draw was, ‘That wasn’t a penalty, we tried to play the game in an open and honest way.’
Read more from Stan Collymore here.
Klopp calls on power of Anfield in Europe
For Jurgen Klopp, at least it wasn't Real Madrid again in the Champions' League.
Before the draw, the Liverpool manager had joked it would be the Spanish holders of the trophy in the first knock out phase, 'because usually I always get them'.
After former Anfield old boy Xabi Alonso had pulled the Reds' name out of the hat to pair them with Porto, the German was clearly a relieved man... even if he refused to under-estimate the Portuguese side.
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“Last Wednesday, when we knew we were still involved, that was our big dream: we didn’t care who we would get. It was clear it would be a strong side,” he explained.
“Porto are a strong side, first in the Portuguese league and always good. This year again they’re a difficult side to play.