Yankuba Minteh to Liverpool transfer update drops after failed £80m summer move - "A big win"

Brighton & Hove Albion attacker Yankuba Minteh remains keen connected a determination to Liverpool successful 2027, according to a Gambian shot expert.

The 22-year-old was a starring people for the Reds passim the summertime window, but Liverpool failed to conscionable Brighton's £80m asking price and saw much than 1 attack knocked back.

Minteh is yet to diagnostic this play for Brighton owed to a ft injury, and the Gambia planetary whitethorn not beryllium backmost successful enactment until precocious October oregon aboriginal November.

Nevertheless, Liverpool proceed to beryllium linked with a swoop for the erstwhile Feyenoord winger, who boasts 10 goals and 9 assists successful 73 matches for the Seagulls successful each tournaments.

Now, Gambian expert Baboucarr Fallaboweh - speaking to Sport Witness - has claimed that Minteh would inactive invited the accidental to determination to Anfield, and it is improbable that helium volition see a transportation extracurricular of the Premier League.

Yankuba Minteh 'still wants' to articulation Liverpool

"I deliberation Liverpool. He volition inactive privation to spell to Liverpool. Depending connected [how] Liverpool volition activate that tendency to inactive person him," Fallaboweh said. "Because close now, his concern has not been helped due to the fact that helium is injured. If not, past you could person much justification for him to showcase his show wherefore Liverpool were aft him.

“But astatine the wide situation, adjacent if helium moves, I don’t deliberation helium volition determination extracurricular the Premier League. Manchester United tin travel banging connected their doors.

“It’s a large triumph for him to beryllium associated with Liverpool. So, it gives different large European clubs astir the satellite to instrumentality a person look astatine him present that they cognize Brighton’s existent price. So, it volition beryllium easier for them to research it."

A fewer days aft the summertime model closed, Brighton brag Fabian Hurzeler hinted that Minteh could permission successful January, arsenic his projected determination to Liverpool could person happened had it not been for his untimely ft injury.

Brighton paid €35m (£30.1m) to motion Minteh successful 2024, and the attacker's declaration astatine the Amex Stadium does not expire until the extremity of the 2028-29 campaign.

Do Liverpool request Yankuba Minteh?

With the Minteh doorway closed, Liverpool pulled disconnected the marquee signing of Bradley Barcola, who has shown agleam flashes during his earliest days nether Andoni Iraola.

Barcola is 1 of respective wide options astatine Iraola's disposal, a database that besides comprises Victor Munoz, Rio Ngumoha, Florian Wirtz, Cody Gakpo and Federico Chiesa, though the second has besides not featured yet this play owed to injury.

Meanwhile, Gakpo could supposedly inactive leave successful 2027 pursuing summertime involvement from Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City, portion Wirtz's semipermanent aboriginal is not acceptable successful chromatic amid mounting disapproval of his displays.

Furthermore, Liverpool did not motion a nonstop right-wing replacement for Mohamed Salah successful the summer, and if Minteh hits the crushed moving connected his instrumentality from injury, the Reds ought to swiftly reignite their interest.