Report: Club runs into £800k problem as they try to sign ‘exceptional’ Liverpool player

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Divock Origi won’t be too easy to sign from Liverpool, according to reports. One club has hit an £800k problem.

This comes from Gazzetta dello Sport. They claim that AC Milan very much do want to sign Divock Origi from Liverpool this summer – but there’s a problem.

Milan are around £800k short of Origi’s yearly salary demands and they don’t particularly want to budge. They have a self-imposed salary cap of roughly £3.4m for player contracts – and the Belgian wants more.

But there’s apparently a sense that a deal will get done, with a compromise surely there. Origi is free to move wherever he wants this summer, after all, with the end of his Liverpool contract. Milan appear most likely to pick him up – providing they find that compromise.

Divock Origi to leave Liverpool

It does seem an absolute certainty now that Origi leaves Liverpool for good come the summer. It’s been eight years since he signed for the club but this looks like the end.

Milan have long been touted as his likely destination, too – even if they’re slightly short on the finances. We do expect someone to pick up Origi’s wages, though. Milan or otherwise.

He’s a player in his prime years, after all, and who can provide a full five-year contract at that peak. It just feels like an easy deal for clubs to make, given Origi won’t even cost a transfer fee.

And it’s certainly the right time to move on. Origi just can’t get in the Liverpool team right now – he struggled even before Luis Diaz moved to Anfield. The competition for places are just too much for anyone not performing perfectly.

Origi has always been a strange fit under Jurgen Klopp, with an impact in big games his major strength. Liverpool will hope their five elite forwards can provide that on their own, however.

And for Origi, that means finally moving on to be the main man somewhere else.