Manager on his star being ‘wooed by Liverpool’ – Says transfer surely on his mind

Timo Werner has been linked with a move to Liverpool for over a year. For a long time it felt like the RB Leipzig player, along with the German media, wanted a transfer to Anfield to happen, but the feeling wasn’t fully reciprocated from Jurgen Klopp.

Claims have changed over the past month or so, with reports first coming from Germany of talks between Werner and the Liverpool manager, and then similar stories being reported in England.

Almost every week there’s a new article from SportBild on the matter, and this time the German magazine have managed to interview Julian Nagelsmann, the striker’s manager at RB Leipzig.

There’s no way Nagelsmann wasn’t going to be quizzed on Werner and a summer move, and SportBild asked: “Timo Werner is being wooed by Liverpool FC. When it comes to a change or his contract, he often does not play as consistently well as he does not think about the future. How do you experience this?”

The manager was open enough to admit that whilst a potential move to the Reds hasn’t completely overtaken Werner’s thinking, it’s certainly something on his mind right now: “He is in a good mood, feels good and trains well. I do not have the impression that he is carrying a large cross with him. But he is a young guy who is sure to sit at home with his wife and ponder whether he will stay or change.

“When the question is in the room, you are always a little bit somewhere else. It was no different for me than when in Hoffenheim, it was about whether I go away. It is more obvious with strikers, because then there are phases in which they do not score.”

Nagelsmann doesn’t think his striker is showing a bad attitude, and sounded very understanding about how the future is an issue for Werner right now.