Amidst all of the disappointment and uncertainty that surrounds Liverpool Football Club as Arne Slot’s disinterested Reds slump towards the end of a miserable 2025-26 campaign under their embattled head coach and with an upper management that has failed in two years to improve the title-calibre side they were gifted, there is still talk of the future.
Time, after all, passes no matter our mood or opinion on the matter. In a week, another Premier League season will be over and the people who have failed
twice before will, it appears, be in charge of trying to get it right at the third time of asking. And they’ll have an almighty job to do given the expected wave of departures.
One of the biggest needs for Liverpool and sporting director Richard Hughes, widely believed to be set to depart the club himself end of summer and take the parachute option of heading to the Saudi league after two disastrous seasons on Merseyside, will be on the wing where he will need to both replace departing legend Mohamed Salah and make right last summer’s screw up of selling Luis Diaz and not replacing him.
There will be plenty of winger rumours by the time it’s all said and done, then. And today we have a new one, at least for Liverpool, with Dortmund’s 24-year-old Karim Adeyemi being linked. He’s a new name for the Reds, but has been regularly linked with Manchester United and Chelsea.
That sets up a situation where many will suspect Liverpool are simply being added to the mix as an easy option, either by rumour mongers looking for clicks or because selling club Dortmund are adding their name to the mix in an effort to get United or Chelsea to hurry up and pay up for the talented wide man who has a year left on his contract and whom Dortmund are said to want £60M for.
Things get even more eyebrow-raising when you consider that Adeyemi hasn’t had the greatest of seasons, with issues on and off the pitch and his declining contract as recently as a month ago said to have halved his transfer value—which is to say, it might be difficult for Dortmund to get anything like £60M for him without a little inducement.
Inducement like, say, adding a Liverpool side everyone knows will be desperate to sign a high level winger into the mix. For what it’s worth, Adeyemi has ten goals and six assists in 39 appearances this season, but has only played 1,836 minutes—which is to say around 47 minutes per appearance.
That does raise his per minute goal involvement number to once every 115 minutes, but all things considered we’re inclined not to take this one very seriously unless Dortmund are truly desperate and his price comes down enough to make it worth taking a gamble on a player who doesn’t appear primed to take the next step.
