Steven Gerrard urges Liverpool to re-sign £65.5m player: ‘I’m missing him’
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Luis Diaz joined Bayern Munich in a £65.5m deal from Liverpool last summer (Europa Press via Getty) Steven Gerrard admits he would welcome Luis Diaz back at Liverpool and believes the club have no chance of signing Michael Olise from Bayern Munich this summer. Diaz played a key role in Liverpool’s Premier League title success last season before the club allowed him to move to Bayern in a £65.5 million deal last summer.
Steven Gerrard doubts whether Liverpool can sign Michael Olise this summer (Getty) ‘If you leave him in one-versus-one situations, you are in major trouble.’ Asked if he would take Olise at Liverpool, Gerrard replied: ‘All day long. ‘But the problem is, why would he leave Bayern? He looks like a really happy kid, settled, to me, I don’t think he’s going anywhere. ‘But, yes, would I love him at Liverpool.
I’m missing him, I’m missing him.’ Meanwhile, Gerrard’s former Liverpool teammate, Jamie Carragher, believes the club were right to cash in on Diaz. Jamie Carragher insists Liverpool were right to sell Luis Diaz (Getty) ‘But sometimes you get presented deals as a club and at the time that was a good deal for Liverpool. ‘Liverpool I think bought Luis Diaz for £40 million, they had him for four seasons maybe, he was due for a new contract, he’d been on the same contract since he came, so he wasn’t on huge wages and the next one would have put him on a big contract and Liverpool would have had him until his early 30s, which is probably not what they wanted ideally. ‘Bayern Munich had a problem because they tried to get Florian Wirtz, obviously he came to Liverpool, then [Jamal] Musiala got injured during the Club World Cup, so they were desperate for a player, I think they ended up paying £70m for Luis Diaz at 28, so the whole package was a good deal. ‘But listen, he’s still a really good player, you saw that last season for Liverpool and we’re now seeing it for Bayern.