Liverpool are seeing the Marko Grujic loan deal turn into an absolute disaster. It’s one that will cost them millions.
Liverpool completed a surprise, late loan deal for Marko Grujic back in October. They took advantage of Portugal’s transfer window closing a little later than others and sent him to FC Porto.
It was important they did, too. Liverpool were over their foreign-player limit for their squad. Keeping Grujic would mean having to leave someone out, condemning them to no football.
That could have been Grujic, in fact. And given they reportedly had a £20m valuation on the player, that would have been a disaster.
After all, a season of no football would have seen that value absolutely plummet. Unfortunately, it likely has anyway.
Not the plan
Grujic has not played well for Porto. In fact, he’s in a position now where he does well to play at all.
The Serbian has started just one game since the end of January and he went off after just 23 minutes. Porto had conceded two early goals to SC Braga and Grujic was one of the two sacrificed in an attempt to turn things around.
He then got just five minutes this weekend. Grujic is far from a key player at Porto.
And that will cost Liverpool millions. There’s no longer a place for him in the squad and they’ll surely look to sell.
Recent reports out of Serbia claimed as much but they felt Liverpool would want up to £26m for him.
No chance. This awful loan spell lowers that price as Grujic’s stock is lower than it has arguably ever been.
Liverpool undoubtedly sent him there to raise his price to try and get that £20m one year later. Instead, they’ll be lucky to get anything remotely close to that.
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