Liverpool rejected an offer for Nat Phillips on Wednesday, according to reports. It suggests the Reds learned from a mistake in the summer.
Sky Sports claim Liverpool rejected a £7m offer for Nat Phillips on Wednesday, from an unnamed Premier League club. It’s an offer that would have looked fantastic 18 months ago – now it’s almost insulting.
Liverpool supposedly have a £15m asking price, for one thing, and that’s stood for a while now. The Athletic mentioned that price back in August.
We’ve talked before about a price in that range being a bargain for a Premier League side. £7m, though? A steal. Robbery.
Fortunately, it appears Liverpool learned from what looks like a real mistake from the summer.
Liverpool reject Nat Phillips offer
Liverpool actually accepted a similar offer back in the summer for Taiwo Awoniyi. The striker joined Union Berlin – where he’d been on loan – for £6.5m despite not playing a game for the Reds.
But Awoniyi has gone on to score nine goals in the Bundesliga already this season. That alone makes any 24-year-old worth more than £6.5m and it does feel as though Liverpool got that one wrong. Another loan could have dramatically raised that price.
It seems Liverpool won’t do that again, though. Rejecting that first offer for Phillips shows they’ll stick to their asking price at the very least – as they should.
Phillips helped the Reds finish third last season with some fantastic performances. We’ve then watched him play fantastically well at San Siro against AC Milan. You rarely find players with this kind of experience at 24 – definitely not for £7m.
Liverpool do have a very talented player in Phillips and one who, in another era, would get decent gametime. But as things stand, a bidding war is the best-case scenario. And that should mean a price far above £7m.
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