Taiwo Awoniyi talks about his emotional experience after scoring against former club Liverpool. (imago Images)
HITC cite a report by Goal (h/t Liverpool Echo) claiming that Bundesliga side, Mainz 05, have tabled a formal offer for Liverpool centre-forward, Taiwo Awoniyi.
Mainz is, of course, the club where Liverpool boss, Jurgen Klopp, spent the majority of his playing career and started out as a manager. Apart from Mainz, English clubs are also eyeing the 23-year-old.
The Nigerian attacker is the subject of interest from West Bromwich Albion and Stoke City. Awoniyi has already spent three loan spells in Germany prior to this news.
He was at Union Berlin in their latest campaign and at Mainz the season before that. His first loan spell was also in Germany at FSV Frankfurt, which came just after he signed for the club’s academy in 2015.
However, he has not made a single appearance for the club at any level in the past 6 seasons, with all his exploits coming on loan spells in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
An excerpt from the article by HITC via Goal (h/t Liverpool Echo) mentions that the Reds have been boosted in their chances of offloading the attacker as he has been granted a UK work permit.
“Liverpool have seen their hopes of selling Mainz target Awoniyi boosted after the Nigerian qualified for a UK work permit.”
Roberto Firmino can use some competition, with Divock Origi not meeting expectations last year. But it is clear that Awoniyi was never that man considering he never had a single minute in a Liverpool shirt.
The Reds, if they are successful in the sale of the attacker, should then utilize that money and put it towards any potential signings they want to make in the summer, preferably an attacker or a central midfielder.
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