Monday, 12 August 2019

Dejan Lovren is Still on AS Roma’s Transfer Radar

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Dejan Lovren

DBasia.news –  The 2018/19 season will be remembered as one of Liverpool’s best seasons. Despite only finishing runner-up in the Premier League, the Reds won the Champions League title.

Despite the success of performing well and winning the inaugural trophy since playing under the direction of Jurgen Klopp, luck does not seem to overshadow one of the team’s formidable defenders, Dejan Lovren.

He is no longer the first choice along with the solid duo of Virgil van Dijk and Joel Matip, not only that, but Lovren was also absent several times due to injury. This situation certainly makes the Croatian player began to be associated with the Anfield exit.

Two top Serie A clubs, AC Milan and AS Roma are claimed to be ready to compete to bring him, but it seems I Giallorossi is the team most likely to get Lovren’s signature.

According to a report from Italian Football, Roma have re-opened negotiations with Liverpool and made an offer to borrow the player with an option to purchase worth 18 to 20 million euros. Lovren’s agent even claimed to have held a meeting with the director of Rome, Gianluca Petrachi.

Dejan Lovren began joining Liverpool in 2014, while at Anfield, the 30-year-old player has played 170 matches with a collection of seven goals and four assists.

If in the end, Lovren chose to join the Stadio Olimpico, then he would be the seventh recruitment of Paolo Fonseca in the summer of 2019. Previously several players such as Leonardo Spinazzola, Pau Lopez, Bryan Cristante, and Amadou Diawara had already joined.

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