Citing Italy’s Gazeta Delo Sport, the British ‘Team Talk’ reported on the 19th (Korea Standard Time) that “Liverpool coach Arne Slot is a big fan of Inter Marcus Thurang and is considering recruiting him at a large cost.”
Marcus Thurang, the son of French legend Lillian Thurang, made his name in the German Bundesliga with Borussia Mönchengladbach. He has become a key striker in the 2019/20 season with 14 goals and nine assists in 39 official matches. In the 2022/23 season, he played 32 matches with 16 goals and seven assists.
As his contract with Mönchengladbach expired last summer, he transferred to Inter. He is also on the rise at Inter. During the 2023/24 season, Thurang led Inter’s attack by scoring 15 goals and 14 assists in 46 matches. In the Italian Serie A, he scored 13 goals and 13 assists in 35 matches, contributing to his team’s win in the league. He has eight goals and five assists in 15 matches this season.
Liverpool is interested in 바로벳. Liverpool has Darwin Núñez, Diogo Jota, and Cody Hakpo among its strikers, but the three players are not completely satisfactory. Núñez has scored three goals and two assists in 14 matches, while Hokpo has only six goals and two assists in 17 matches. Jota has displayed below-expectation scoring capacity by scoring four goals and two assists in 10 matches.
The slot manager hopes for Thurang, but Inter is unlikely to sell him easily. According to “Team Talk”, the contract period between Thurang and Inter is until June 2028. The buyout clause is also quite high at 85 million euros (about 1251 billion won). Attention is focusing on whether Liverpool will be able to persuade Inter and succeed in recruiting Thurang.