According to transfer expert Ian McGarry, Liverpool could be interested in signing Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey. The Welshman is entering the final 12 months of his contract and hasn’t signed a new one yet.
McGarry said, “There’s a little bit of interest from Liverpool, I understand. I think there’s no vacancy at Liverpool right now following the arrival of Fabinho and Naby Keita but Ramsey would certainly be a very good addition to Jurgen Klopp’s squad as a creative box-to-box midfielder. So, Ramsey is taking time and quite rightly to weigh up his options.
The transfer expert added, “I don’t think he’s particularly worried about moving (by the deadline) because as of January he can sign a pre-contract with any club outside of England as Emre Can did with Juventus and move next summer for free when the fee that would be demanded for him now – £35m to £40m – would be paid to him in wages as a signing on fee. To me, Ramsey is again one of the few candidates of British players who would happily go abroad and ply his trade and learn the language and fit in and be a success. So his options are not purely limited to the Premier League.”
“I think it would be a big loss to Emery and Arsenal but at the same time I get the feeling with Emery that he is not one to stand on tradition and culture. We saw the way Jack Wilshere, someone who had been endlessly indulged with contract despite the way he recovered from injuries, we saw the way Emery was quite cold in telling him ‘you might be a sub’. It’s not come to that with Ramsey yet. He’s not been told he won’t be a starting player.”
Ramsey has been strongly linked to Chelsea lately. He was expected to start in Arsenal’s pre-season match against Chelsea but he didn’t and instead, Emile Smith Rowe started. Unai Emery said that Ramsey had muscle pain and hence he decided not to give him the start.
