Liverpool reportedly back in for Nabil Fekir but eyeing a lower transfer fee

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Liverpool are ready to reignite their interest in Lyon playmaker Nabil Fekir this summer, according to French outlet Le Progres.

They report that Jurgen Klopp is ready to go back in for Fekir but unwilling to spend as much as the 50 million euros (£44.5 million) they agreed for the midfielder last summer.

The report says that Fekir’s move fell through for fitness reasons but perhaps those concerns have subsided in the intervening year.

And Liverpool’s plan to get the fee down for Fekir apparently revolves around the friendly organised between themselves and Lyon in Geneva on July 31, as they are hopeful that giving the French side a greater share of the profits from that game could get the price down.

Liverpool’s sale of Philippe Coutinho has financed the club’s rise right back to the top of European football and Jurgen Klopp’s style of play doesn’t really demand a pure playmaker every week.

But some weeks, as defending sides sit deep and invite Liverpool to break them down, a player with Fekir’s guile might be quite useful – and Liverpool have never replaced Coutinho in that sense.

Liverpool only need tweaks this summer but it’s important to keep recruiting and improving from a position of strength – and if they can get Fekir, a player they have clearly scouted at length and like – for a knockdown price then they should go for it.