Neil Jones refuted rumours claiming that Liverpool is planning to sign Bayern Munich defender Dayot Upamecano if they failed to sign Crystal Palace captain Marc Guehi..
2025-09-25 07:35
Goal's resident renowned English Liverpool team correspondent Neil Jones, has refuted rumours which claimed that Liverpool is planning to sign Bayern Munich defender Dayot Upamecano if they failed to sign Crystal Palace captain Marc Guehi in his official paid column on Wednesday.
Jones refuted the rumour in his column by stating that Liverpool had always intended to sign Marc Guehi and he had never heard of the Reds is planning to sign Upamecano.
He expressed his suspicion that the rumour was fabricated because Dayot Upamecano's contract was expiring next summer and the rumour monger were interested in using his name to link the club's name in order to hype up the topic. If that were true, the author's motives were quite 'stupid'.
Jones revealed that, at this stage, no industry journalists had heard that Bayern Munich would not negotiate a contract extension with Upamecano.
This situation is exactly like the Reds' situation with Ibrahima Konaté.
Jones also took the opportunity to refute rumours which claimed that Liverpool was planning to sign fierce local rivals Everton's defender Jarrad Branthwaite.
He quipped that despite having been debunked countless times since the same person first started the rumour last summer, the individual seems to be relentlessly bringing up the same story, completely oblivious to the fact that Liverpool won't directly poach Everton players. This only proves the rumormonger's apathy.
Upon investigation, it was discovered that the rumor that which Liverpool planned to sign Upamecano if they failed to sign Crystal Palace captain Guehi was fabricated by Graeme Bailey, our "Daily Slap in the Face Party" regular representative and a fake news expert of the UK's notoriously infamous online media outlet, 90Min, through a Liverpool content farm website!
In truth, after Liverpool failed to secure Martin Zubimendi last season, they preferred to retrain Ryan Gravenberch as a defensive midfielder rather than sign another player as a replacement, demonstrating that Sporting Director Richard Hughes isn't one who will change his transfer plans.
This is also evident in the Reds' relentless pursuit of Alexander Isak this summer, before ultimately securing the Swedish international forward's signature.
So, to paraphrase our frequent advice, "Don't use the impending expiration of Upamecano's contract as a pretext to fabricate rumours about the Premier League champions is planning to sign him"!
