RAGING Tottenham chief Daniel Levy reportedly threatened to REPORT Liverpool’s recruitment staff to their owners to try and stop the Reds signing Luis Diaz.
The Brazilian winger is on his way to Anfield after Liverpool agreed a blockbuster £50million transfer deal with Porto.
But before SunSport exclusively revealed that Liverpool had eyes on the 25-year-old, Tottenham were on the brink of signing him.
Spurs had even agreed terms with Porto to recruit Diaz for £48m plus add-ons.
However, the Reds had other ideas and put together an offer of their own – led by incoming sports director Julian Ward – to hijack Tottenham’s Diaz deal that had hit the skids after super agent Jorge Mendes waded into the negotiations.
Despite Spurs’ interest, Diaz preferred a move to Liverpool – and an alleged face time call with Kop boss Jurgen Klopp helped sweeten the deal.
Levy was said to be incensed when he heard the Reds had courted Tottenham’s top transfer target and frantically tried to stop it by threatening to expose Liverpool’s recruitment staff’s tactics to the club’s owners John W Henry and Mike Gordon, according to The Telegraph.
But Levy’s desperate attempt to get the Reds to back down had no effect as Henry and Gordon had no issues with their staff’s conduct.
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And with Levy all out of options, Diaz’s move to Liverpool went ahead without a glitch.
However, it’s not all doom and gloom for Levy and Spurs.
Although they’ve missed out on the dynamic Diaz, the North London outfit are on the brink of bringing in Juventus duo Rodrigo Bentancur and Dejan Kulusevski.
Swedish winger Kulusevski is set to be unveiled by Tottenham once they offload Bryan Gil to Valencia on loan.
Gil’s set to be followed by fellow outcast Tanguy Ndombele out of the White Hart Lane exit, according to transfer expert Fabrizio Romano.
Ndomele’s said to be in advanced talks with French outfit Lyon, who plan to bring the man they sold to Tottenham in 2019 back on loan.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
