Many of the briefings out of Liverpool Football Club regarding the club’s struggles this season have focused on turnover. Last summer, or so the story goes, the club bought and sold a lot of players and that means time for adjustment, time for new players to bed in, and time for a new tactical identity to develop.
The 2025-26 season ended on the weekend with no sign of a new tactical identity yet taking hold, and now we’re heading towards a summer that could see even more turnover than last. Which,
if you take the club briefings on what went wrong in 2025-26 at face value, means we could be in for another year waiting for all the new signings to adjust, to bed in, and to develop a new tactical identity.
But we’re getting sidetracked. Because we’re here to talk about Curtis Jones, aka just about the only Scouser still left in the team after sporting director Richard Hughes went on a selling spree last summer gutting the club not just of necessary depth but also of homegrown talent.
It’s been rumoured Jones doesn’t like his role in the team under head coach Arne Slot and doesn’t see a pathway to being a first choice in midfield with Liverpool and with Hughes having failed to tie him down to a new deal over the past two seasons he now has just a year to run on his contract. Which means Liverpool can either sell now or lose him for nothing next summer.
Inter first made an approach for Jones in January and by all accounts Jones was ready to leave mid-season, but injury issues meant Liverpool wouldn’t sign off on the sale. Now, Inter are back, Jones still wants to join them, and reports out of Italy today have a €20M offer having been tabled by the Serie A side.
For their part, Liverpool are said to be holding out for closer to €30M and they are also said to want a sell-on clause included in the deal. Regardless the finer points of any eventual deal, given the January near-transfer as well as Jones’ contract situation and that the player does appear to want out, this does seem a case where it’s safe to say something is happening.
