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Sky Sports News revealed earlier this week that Bayern were back in for Luis Diaz after seeing a £58.5m offer rejected earlier in the month; Liverpool value Diaz at more than £86m; Bayern believe Diaz wants to join the club
Sunday 27 July 2025 20:13, UK
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Liverpool boss Arne Slot said Luis Diaz was left out of the pre-season defeat to AC Milan due to the ongoing speculation surrounding his future.
Sky Sports reported on Friday that Bayern Munich have reignited their interest in the Colombian having already had a bid worth £58.5m rejected earlier this month.
Despite Liverpool’s response being that Diaz is not for sale, it is understood Bayern’s communication with the Premier League club has been persistent.
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At this stage the two clubs are just in dialogue and there has been no formal offer from Bayern.
However, it was confirmed by Slot after the 4-2 defeat to Milan that his absence from the squad was related to the uncertainty surrounding his future.
“One of the positions that we didn’t have was a number nine,” Slot told LFC TV.
“We had one, Hugo, but he wasn’t ready to play yet. Darwin was injured. Lucho [Diaz] couldn’t play as well.
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He would later reiterate post-match that this was as a result of the 28-year-old’s future, saying in his post-match press conference:
“In Lucho’s situation it was, yeah [the reason why he was left out]. There’s a lot of rumours around him lately and I cannot go into that. He’s training really well with us but we have decided for now not to play him yet.
“I’m used to talking to most of my players on a regular basis. Like I said, Lucho is training really well and we’ve decided that he’s not playing at the moment in the games. I cannot comment much more about that.”
Liverpool’s position on Diaz remains that he is an important player not just for the coming season but for the remainder of his contract, which has two years left to run.
The Anfield club are understood to have made that clear to all interested clubs, which has also included Barcelona this summer.
Liverpool’s internal accounting of assets values Diaz at more than £86m (€100m+) and the club have not set a sale price because they do not want to.
Diaz has had interest from clubs in Saudi Arabia too – a market that also recently appeared to value Bruno Fernandes, who is two years older, at around £86.8m (€100m).
The Colombia international is understood to have been open to moving away from Anfield in the last two summer transfer windows but remained an important first-team player last season, scoring 13 goals in 36 Premier League appearances as Liverpool won the title.
Sky Sports’ Jamie Carragher speaking at the start of May:
“It’s an interesting one, where I think you could flip a coin with some people saying they’d love him to sign a new contract and some say it might be the time where you get good money for him because he’s at a good age.
“I think Luis Diaz has been one of the best left wingers in the Premier League this season. I don’t think he’s quite Sadio Mane, so I think Liverpool supporters are actually still thinking, ‘we haven’t quite replaced Mane’, but how many of them is there about?
“If I’m being honest, for the majority of this season up until Christmas, I was thinking you sell Diaz in the summer.
“The way he’s played and the way Liverpool’s front line might change, and with the fact that he can play through the middle in the manager’s eyes, he’s now going to stay and I think it might be other players who move on in the front line rather than Diaz.”
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