Matteo Moretto Transfer Column: Takefusa Kubo to Liverpool, Matt O’Riley to Atletico Madrid and Javi Guerra

Matteo Moretto gives Football España exclusive information on the latest deals dominating the papers in Spain, as revealed in the Daily Briefing.

The Moise Kean situation is quite simple, ultimately. Atletico Madrid started off with the mindset that if someobody leaves, in this case it’s Angel Correa who has interest from Saudi Arabia and is open to a move, then they will sign a replacement. Kean is that replacement. Everything is done with him, 100% agreed, and he essentially has been waiting for the green light to get on a plane to Madrid. But now they are starting to get the feeling that Correa is more likely stay than go, that’s something they’re getting from Correa and Diego Simeone voiced it on Thursday night. The reason being that the offer from Saudi Arabia is not meeting Atletico’s demands.

Hence the coming hours could be crucial for Kean, because Atletico Madrid have decide now whether they go ahead with the deal anyway, and bring an extra forward in, or to stick with what they have got. Kean is still committed to and wants to go to Atletico Madrid. There are other teams interested in him, including Fiorentina, but Kean still has his mind on Atletico.

Newcastle United have asked about him, and are very interested. Manchester United are also very interested. In Italy, there’s a lot of interest, with Milan and Juventus very much enticed by Guerra. To that list of suitors, you can also add Paris Saint-Germain, and have a Spanish manager in Luis Enrique there. The problem for those sides is that Valencia did not want to allow him to leave in the winter transfer window, so all of these conversations look as if they will rumble on in the background until June, when they might speed up again.

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