Liverpool battle Manchester United for Barcelona's unused sub Alejandro Balde

After spending £250.1 million on reinforcements successful the past transportation window, Liverpool are inactive looking for the perfect fit with Andoni Iraola. And pursuing Ronald Araújo’s beardown start at Anfield, the Reds are targeting different of Hansi Flick’s reserves astatine Barcelona: Alejandro Balde.

According to the paper Sport, the left-back, who has fallen down the pecking bid astatine Barça, would beryllium an “interesting signing” successful the Spanish manager’s view, peculiarly if the presumption of the woody are favourable. As with the swift negotiations that led to the statement for the Uruguayan centre-back’s loan, Liverpool and Barcelona person a bully relationship.

After struggling with anxiousness and depression at Camp Nou, Araújo has relaunched his vocation with the Reds, making an contiguous interaction connected the close broadside of the defence. The No. 33 adjacent provided a backheel assistance for Dominik Szoboszlai successful the 2–1 triumph implicit Atletico Madrid, successful the opening circular of the Champions League, past week.

As successful the lawsuit of Ronald Araújo, who had fallen down the German coach’s pecking order, Liverpool judge they tin bring retired the champion successful Balde again. So far, determination has been nary authoritative question down the scenes, but the Reds are monitoring the concern of the Barcelona No. 3 up of the marketplace reopening successful January.

After his meteoric emergence from the academy to the archetypal team, Alejandro Balde gradually stopped being an undisputed starter for the Blaugrana owed to injuries and inconsistent performances. With João Cancelo arriving connected indebtedness successful January, earlier making the determination imperishable successful August, the left-back became a reserve and ceased to beryllium a precedence for Flick.

Why swapping Barcelona for Liverpool could beryllium a amended enactment for Balde

During pre-season, Barcelona promoted Xavi Espart from La Masia, and his performances successful the friendlies convinced the manager that helium deserved to beryllium portion of the rotation for 2026/27. As a result, the 22-year-old Spaniard became the 3rd enactment successful the presumption and was placed connected the Culés’ transportation list.

In caller weeks, Balde had been linked with clubs specified arsenic Benfica, Inter Milan, Aston Villa and Manchester United, but the talks did not progress. He decided to stay in an effort to person the German manager that helium deserved further opportunities to beryllium his prime astatine Barça.

However, Alejandro Balde has not played a azygous infinitesimal this season, contempt being afloat fit. An unused substitute successful each competitory lucifer truthful far, the Spanish left-back could judge the situation of joining the Reds, who person doubts implicit their existent options.

Milos Kerkez has inactive been incapable to reproduce the high-level performances helium delivered astatine Iraola’s Bournemouth, portion his contiguous understudy, Kostas Tsimikas, who was loaned to Roma successful 2025/26 and besides failed to convince, has done small to warrant his spot successful the starting XI.

For Balde, choosing betwixt remaining connected the sidelines astatine Barcelona, with whom helium has a declaration until June 2028, and attempting a caller commencement astatine Liverpool is not a hard decision. It remains to beryllium seen whether the clubs are consenting to crook that anticipation into world during the European wintertime transportation window.