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title: "Report: Liverpool make £54m bid for Kalidou Koulibaly"
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type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Ste Hoare"
section: "Articles"
published: "2020-06-22T08:36:13Z"
modified: "2020-06-22T08:36:20Z"
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# Report: Liverpool make £54m bid for Kalidou Koulibaly

Liverpool have reportedly made a bid of £54million to Napoli for defender Kalidou Koulibaly.

Italian outlet [Corriere dello Sport](https://www.corrieredellosport.it/calcio/) (translated by the [Standard](https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news-live-latest-rumours-gossip-today-manchester-united-chelsea-liverpool-sancho-kurzawa-a4475656.html#post-1188425712)) claim that The Red have made the cut-price offer for the Senegalese defender in a hope of bringing him in to form a defensive partnership with Virgil van Dijk.

Napoli have reportedly been asking for bids of around £80m for the centre-back is it remains to be seen if they’d accept such an offer from the Reds.

### Read Liverpool Verdict

Having watched Dejan Lovren really struggle when he came on as a substitute against Everton, there may well be more than a few Liverpool supporters who would like to see their team sign a new defender to join Van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Joel Matip as part of Liverpool’s defensive options.

Whether The Reds are willing to splash such a fee on Koulibaly remains to be seen but if they are, then getting one of the best defenders in the world for a relatively cheap fee, all things considered, would be a very good deal, especially if Liverpool could help find such a move by selling Lovren.