Liverpool chased Southampton’s Roméo Lavia for most of the summer window and even saw a few of their bids turned down by the Championship side.
On Monday, the Reds finally found an agreement with the Saints but the midfielder was no longer keen on making a switch to Anfield. He’s set his sights on joining Chelsea and is now expected to complete a move to the West London club.
The 19-year-old initially wanted a move to Liverpool and Sacha Tavolieri took to Twitter to explain the reason behind him having a change of heart.
Sources close to the midfielder feel Jürgen Klopp’s side ‘played with him’, which is why he has opted to join Chelsea.
Tavolieri claims ‘he was there, waiting’ to join Liverpool initially. The Belgium international realised he wasn’t the absolute priority for the Merseyside club, who were also seeking out other options when negotiating with him.
Moisés Caicedo was among them and he snubbed Liverpool for Chelsea. Lavia is now set to follow him to reject the Reds in favour of Mauricio Pochettino’s side.
The journalist adds the Blues maintained the same stance since they registered interest in the Southampton player and it’s now helping them to beat Liverpool in the transfer race.
🔵🇧🇪🗯️ Sources told Romeo #Lavia’s felt #LiverpoolFC played with him that’s why he decided to go for #ChelseaFC. He was there… waiting for them & felt like they didn’t considered him as a priority. A sign of this was that when he was waiting for them, while negociating, he…
— Sacha Tavolieri (@sachatavolieri) August 15, 2023
