Sao Paulo are open to provides for 20-year-old defender Lucas Beraldo, who’s a participant on Liverpool’s switch radar and was the topic of a bid from Wolves this previous summer time.
Beraldo made the first-team breakthrough with Sao Paulo within the latter half of 2022 and has simply completed his maiden full season at senior degree, which delivered the membership’s first ever Copa do Brasil.
He’s one in all a handful of rising Sao Paulo abilities coming to prominence alongside midfielders Rodrigo Nestor, 23, and Pablo Maia, 21. However as is commonly the case with Brazilian golf equipment if gamers are ok to catch the attention of wealthier European sides, there’s already an acceptance from normal supervisor Rui Costa that their respective long-term futures will probably be elsewhere.
“They’re boys with excellent minds, who know that the second will come [to leave]. We’ll at all times discuss to the agent and the participant,” he instructed Globoesporte.
“We ended up renewing Beraldo’s contract till 2027. We are going to negotiate with every of them if the provide is nice for everybody. However I’ve by no means confronted stress from these boys. Fairly the other.”
90min beforehand reported in early October that Liverpool are amongst a number of golf equipment monitoring the progress Beraldo is making. With Virgil van Dijk and Joel Matip each as a consequence of flip 33 at their respective subsequent birthdays in summer time, the Reds have one eye on recruiting for the long-term.
Beraldo is a left-footed choice that Liverpool do not at the moment have within the centre of defence and is changing into identified for his vary of passing and luxury with the ball at his toes.
Wolves had been rebuffed with a bid in the course of the summer time switch window, which got here halfway by means of the Brazilian membership season, whereas Bayern Munich, Lyon and Monaco have all scouted the participant too.
