Borussia Monchengladbach’s sporting director, Max Eberl, has confirmed that Liverpool target Thorgan Hazard has told the club that he wants a transfer this summer.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Liverpool had made an offer for the Belgian international and now Eberl, in a Q&A on the official Borussia Monchengladbach website, has confirmed that Hazard has asked for a transfer this summer.
He said:
We made our intentions to extend Thorgan’s contract clear a while back now, but he hasn’t reciprocated that interest. He has now told us that he doesn’t want to extend his contract and instead wants to take the next step in his career by leaving the club. However, he still has a contract with us until 2020 and there is no release clause. Interested parties have to offer us a transfer fee that recognises his worth as an exceptional Bundesliga forward and a regular feature in one of the best national teams in the world. If it ends up being the case that Thorgan leaves us, then we will do what we’ve done well in the last few years – we will take the money we make from the transfer and use it to buy more exciting players for our team.
The reports from Belgium on Monday indicated that Borussia Dortmund was Hazard’s prefered destination, but that Monchengladbach prefered that he joined Liverpool as the Reds were offering more money and because they’d rather not send him to a Bundesliga rival.
Whether Hazard has any intentions to join Liverpool remains unknown but if he does, then the Reds look like they could be in the driver’s seat in the chase to sign him.
