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If Lemar is such an immediately eminent replacement, why don't Barca buy him instead - and save a load of money. If Lemar replaces Coutinho line Markovic replaced Suarez..... My worry is that we cannot replace him. If we could, I wouldn't worry and Barca wouldn't be offering us the money. We are being owned by Barca, twice in 4 years. Can you imagine Man City allowing this to happen? I'm so fed up with FSG.

That could work if Coutinho was not pushing so hard to move.

If we could sign Lemar and Goretza then the squad would be stronger, even with Coutinho leaving.

That being said I'm probably dreaming about us signing those two!

I am not so sure about Lemmar, he hasn't been at the top for very long and is not having a good season. He could be a one season wonder, too early to say.

Reports suggest that we are already in talks with Monaco. How true, i do not no.

If Barca look elsewhere for a player it will show weakness. Madrid don't miss out on players and barca have already been embarrassed by the Neymar thing. They want Coutinho. Coutinho wants Barca. We need to get a replacement and get one soon.

Lemar looks decent and in 3 years time if we are still scrapping for 4th and zero trophies then I'm sure PSG will come in for him.

Until we win things we will never hold onto players. It's been said a million times but If Man Utd can't keep Ronaldo and Barca can't keep Neymar. Then what chance have the rest of the teams got?

According to Duncan Castles, writing for Yahoo Sport.

He believes that Liverpool have spoken to Thomas Lemar and the only thing left is to agree a transfer fee.

Castles writes: “Thomas Lemar has talked with Liverpool and, according to sources close to the France international, decided to join from AS Monaco assuming a transfer fee can be agreed with the Ligue 1 club. Liverpool bid for Lemar – who is also on Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho’s shortlist – in the summer window, only to be gazumped by a €95m deadline-day offer from Arsenal.”

Quite what that fee for Lemar will be is unknown but with Liverpool set to receive around €130 million for Coutinho, the Reds will no doubt be able to afford the asking price.

Castles goes on to add that Lemar was “unconvinced” that Arsenal was the best club for him last summer - which is why he rejected the move.

And with Liverpool continuing to show their interest in the 22-year-old, he has been convinced with their determination to sign him.

Lemar played a huge role in Monaco reaching the Champions League semi-finals and winning Ligue 1 last season with 14 goals in all competitions. This season, he’s only scored twice with Monaco failing to keep up with Paris Saint-Germain in the league.

However, with him having just turned 22, it seems Lemar has a very bright future at the top level.

Monaco got raided over the Summer and lost a lot of first team players so playing in a weakened team probably doesn't help.

It must be really hard to be motivated to play in a one team league, Monaco has had all their players stripped away, leaving the only competitive team to be PSG. This Monaco side is not like the one that won the league.

Phil is injured again. he must have hurt is back again when he fell out of the transfer window

I doubt he stays. But if he does he will not play during January. klopp will keep him out of the line up and out of the focus.