Manchester City have reportedly had a personal agreement with Kalidou Koulibaly for some time, and Paris Saint-Germain has also been explicitly associated with the arrival of the Napoli defender in recent weeks. However, the message from Paris comes on Wednesday that not PSG, but competitor Liverpool seems to be the main competitor of Manchester City. According to reports, Koulibaly is Virgil van Dijk’s intended new defense partner.

Le Parisien namely reports that the Reds hope to benefit from the warm bond Sadio Mané maintains with his fellow countryman. The two know each other well from the Senegalese national team and Liverpool would emphatically work on the arrival of Koulibaly at this point. Mané was asked to contact Koulibaly and put in a good word for his current employer.

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PSG is reportedly no longer in the market for the 29-year-old stopper since les Parisiens not being able to put the requested seventy to eighty million euros on the table. Liverpool does end up in the waters of Manchester City, which has long been associated with the arrival of Koulibaly and in the last two weeks of the transfer period is still looking for an extra defender.

If Liverpool succeeds in loosening Koulibaly in Naples, it will have made three major purchases by the end of the transfer window. Last week, the arrival of Thiago Alcántara and Diogo Jota was already completed. The former was taken over from Bayern Munich for a maximum of EUR 30 million, while Jota was acquired from Wolverhampton Wanderers for a maximum of EUR 43 million.