Liverpool submit bid to sign a second winger after Diomande

This summer is one of great change at Liverpool Football Club. Just two years after Jurgen Klopp took his leave, chanting Arne Slot’s name at Anfield, the Reds are back at square one.

Premier League title winner Slot has been sacked and a new era under Andoni Iraola promises great things. That said, the Spaniard is hardly arriving at a time where Liverpool are thriving.

He will have to deal with the departure of club legend Mohamed Salah and they will also need to fill the leadership void left behind by Andy Robertson. It will not be an easy transition for Iraola, let’s put it that away.

Alas, Iraola and Richard Hughes have plans to strengthen and they’re really rather exciting. Yan Diomande feels closer to joining Liverpool than ever before.

The latest on Liverpool’s pursuit of Yan Diomande

It feels like for an age, Liverpool have been linked with signing Diomande from RB Leipzig.

Reports have been rife right throughout 2026 speculation on the Ivorian’s future with Football FanCast sources exclusively revealing back in February that the Reds were close to agreeing personal terms with the wide man.

Liverpool view him as a future best winger in the world and have been in regular talks with the player’s camp for most of the calendar year.

Now, however, they are also in dialogue with Diomande’s club side. A bid of £86m was lodged last week to prise the forward away from the Bundesliga but it was rejected.

Further reports claim a new bid will go in and that personal terms have actually now been agreed. Yet, with PSG also at the table, this will not be a straightforward chase.

While both parties still need to agree a fee with Leipzig, Diomande has given his seal of approval to sign for both the Champions League winners and the Reds. Who gets the player will ultimately come down to who is willing to stump up the most cash.

Hughes and Co have, at least, agreed to sign Victor Munoz, a Spanish winger, but there could be more in the pipeline. Bradley Barcola is also an option and a bid has gone in for another young winger. Let’s find out who that is.

Liverpool make offer to sign their new Ngumoha

While Liverpool’s main aim this summer will be to sign first-team ready players, of which Diomande certainly is, they are also looking at future proofing the team.

Rio Ngumoha is already in the side and looks set to enjoy a brilliant 2026/27 campaign, notably winning the Man of the Match award on his England debut before the World Cup.

Yet, in Andria Bartishvili, a teenage forward, they could sign a player who looks like he boasts very similar attributes. Indeed, according to a top Georgian football insider this week, Liverpool have joined Arsenal and the aformentioned PSG by submitting an official bid to sign the 17-year-old from Kolkheti Poti in his homeland.

This may not seem like hugely exciting news but believe us, Bartishvili looks like one of the most exciting young forwards in the game right now.

Capable of playing as an attacking midfielder or out on the flanks, he is very much cut from a similar cloth to Ngumoha.

The Liverpool wonderkid is one of the most flair-filled young wingers in the game right now. Last season, the newly-capped England international completed a whopping 4.64 dribbles per 90 minutes. That was the highest number of any player in the Premier League.

He also registered 2.47 key passes per 90, enough to rank him as the sixth best player in the top-flight for that metric.

While data such as that is not readily available for Bartishvili due to the level he is playing at, all you need to do is watch clips of the teen in action to realise how similar they are.

The Liverpool-linked attacker has already earned comparisons to his fellow countryman Khvicha Kvaratskhelia for the way he plays and that is hardly a surprise.

The young Georgian superstar’s two best qualities are his close touch control and dribbling ability. The way he manipulates his body to evade opponents and burst beyond them is already first-class. In that regard, he’s much like Ngumoha.

He’s a fearless and direct talent whose first thought is always about getting into a more dangerous position on the pitch to score or assist from.

Sure, this move may well not be as exciting as the Diomande saga but Bartishvili really is a player with the potential to become one of Europe’s trickiest forwards in the coming years.