Infamously notorious Chinese media outlet Zhibo ba slammed for falsely claiming that Rodrygo is discussing about joining Liverpool with his father..
2025-07-19 10:45
Renowned English independent Liverpool team correspondent David Lynch, exclusively slammed our website's "Daily Slap in the Face Party" regular Chinese representative "Zhibo Ba", for falsely claiming that that Real Madrid's Brazil international forward Rodrygo is discussing joining Liverpool with his father through This is Anfield, a news website run by the Liverpool's official fan organization in the UK on Friday.
Lynch hit out in the report that what "Zhibo Ba" mentioned were utter nonsense.
He said Liverpool have had no intention of bringing in Rodrygo for at least 6 years (which means the last time the Reds were interested in signing the player was before he officially joined Real Madrid), but this did not prevent his name from being often used by those infamously notorious media outlets, journalists and content farm writers to be linked with the Reds.
He pointed out that Liverpool's current primary transfer targets are only two players, that is, Alexander Isak or Hugo Ekitike.
Lynch also revealed that according to sources, Liverpool has decided to temporarily shelve the plan to bring in Isak because Newcastle United insisted on not selling him, but the club will not completely give up any chance to sign Isak.
Since his friend, GOAL's resident renowned English Liverpool team correspondent Neil Jones, broke the news that if Isak can't be signed, the Reds would turn their transfer target to signing Ekitike, news about the latter have made significant progress.
Liverpool had already approached Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday (July 17) and submitted an offer of €80 million, but it was rejected.
The Bundesliga powerhouse has informed the Reds that their asking price is close to €100 million.
Despite this, Liverpool's Sporting Director Richard Hughes is still in talks with Frankfurt, and it is expected that he will make another offer close to the asking price to Die Adler in the near future.
Currently, he can be sure that due to the consideration of the Profit and Sustainability rules (PSR), the Magpies have completely given up on signing Ekitike.
Hugo Ekitike himself has reached a preliminary personal terms with Liverpool through his agent.
Upon verification, this is the first time that "Zhibo Ba" has been slammed for lying and falsely claiming that Rodrygo will join Liverpool after half a year!
On Thursday (July 17), "Zhibo Ba" falsely claimed that Rodrygo and his father were meeting with Liverpool management in New York to discuss joining the club.
The article even blamed the YouTube channel "Redmen TV" run by the Liverpool official fan organization in the UK and Eduardo Burgos, a reporter from the Spanish media outlet "AS" as its source.
In fact, "Redmen TV" did conduct a video interview with Burgos on Thursday, but they only tried verifying the rumour with the latter.
In the interview, Burgos has revealed that Rodrygo will only consider whether to leave the club after meeting with Real Madrid management next week and understanding the club's plans, and Rodyigo remains open to joining the Premier League giants.
Coincidentally, Sky Sports' renowned Italian transfer journalist Fabrizio Romano, also confirmed Lynch's statement on his personal official YouTube channel on Friday.
Romano also said that before knowing whether the La Liga giants did not want the player, all news which claimed Rodrygo is joining Liverpool are fake.
It is worth mentioning that upon our verification, the real culprit who "inspired "Zhibo ba" to blame "Redmen TV" and Burgos was the tweet posted by IndyKaila, a disgusting netizen on X (Twitter) who is well-known by football fan and for his love for often posting fake transfer rumours about various players!
