Everybody Thinks Thiago Alcantara to Liverpool is a Done Deal

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The noise is getting impossible to ignore but we can’t help but remain a little bit skeptical. Liverpool needed a left back so they went out and signed a left back. They now appear to need a centre half and goal scoring wide forward. Anything more, given the squad, would be seem to be more of a bonus than a necessity.
Which has made the incessant transfer talk, particularly out of Germany, suggesting the Reds would consider paying €30M or thereabouts to sign a highly talented but injury prone 29-year-old midfielder on high wages rather strange.
In case you’ve been living under a rock of late, we’re talking about Thiago Alcantara of Bayern Munich. A very, very talented midfielder. But also one at the wrong end of his prime years on b...