Liverpool are expected to post their opening bid for Bradley Barcola shortly.
Florian Plettenberg of Sky Germany reports on X (formerly Twitter) that the Merseysiders are set to escalate their interest in the Frenchman with PSG. However, it’s currently unclear exactly what the nature of this first bid will be.
Barcola himself is understood to be very open to an Anfield switch this summer.
Prior reporting indicated that Andoni Iraola’s men would be prepared to start bidding at £85m.
🚨⤵️ Opening bid from Liverpool expected to arrive soon, as revealed. #LFC https://t.co/8XqKsAdzHb
— Florian Plettenberg (@Plettigoal) July 29, 2026
However, our understanding here at Empire of the Kop is that the Ligue 1 champions will be looking to seal a deal beyond the £100m mark.
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Even though there is evident willingness on the player’s part to seek a move to L4 this summer, the price point will, reportedly, be influenced by prior mega deals completed for Elliot Anderson and Morgan Rogers.
On that basis, we rather expect any opening bid around the ballpark of £85m or so to be firmly rejected by PSG.
We’re pretty firm on the idea that Liverpool need to have a clear answer on the Bradley Barcola question as soon as humanly possible.
As things currently stand, we’re going into the 2026/27 season without a clear idea of what we’re doing at right-back and holding midfield, with only two fit centre-backs (including new man Jeremy Jacquet), and without appropriate backup for Alexander Isak.
We still have a lot of work to do in the market before anyone can comfortably say that Iraola has enough in the way of options and available bodies to play his favoured style of football.
As disappointing as it would be to miss out on a signing of Barcola’s calibre, if there’s any notion that talks could drag on into the backend of August, we should move on.
There are just too many questions that need answering – and too much that depends on whether or not Liverpool are splashing mega bucks on this deal.
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Why should LFC not ask for a loan deal of Barcola,with an option to buy at the end of the season or an obligation to buy?
I think PSG would want this settled ASAP..as they themselves have business to be done..so of LFC can submit a bid in the region of let’s say £110m +add ons..it would be enough my opinion..#YNWA
My opinion is we not need barcola we need rayan or akliouche they we be a successor of salah can barcola use left foot, and we did not need to sell gakpo because he his trying, he scored 73 out of 100+ appearance, lfc did not need to sell gakpo because we should not lose him as luis diaz can bayern munich sell luis diaz now,barcola price is to high he not dembele,doue, if barcola is €170 million, then if lfc want to buy hakimi how much did psg want to sell him. we need rayan or alkiouche because monaco has rejected psg offer
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