Liverpool legend Javier Mascherano has urged Luis Diaz to reject a move to PSG and stay at Anfield.
Diaz has come to be a key player for the Reds considering becoming a member of from Porto in January 2022. After a tough start to the season, Diaz has helped to fire Liverpool’s Premier League title charge, scoring thirteen dreams and notching four assists.
His performances have drawn the eye of PSG, who are in the market for a new attacker with Kylian Mbappe leaving this summer. The French giants have end up growing interested in the Colombian international.
But Mascherano, who spent 4 years with Liverpool before leaving for Barcelona, believes it would be a mistake for Diaz to pass on. Instead, the Argentine legend has insisted that Anfield is the ideal region for him.
“He is a fantastic player, very decisive specifically when it comes to taking part in in one-on-one duels. The truth is that I think he has arrived at a team that fits him simply right,” Mascherano told Antena 2.
“If there is some thing that Liverpool have is that they love gamers like Díaz who leave everything on the discipline and have that strength and depart the entirety on the field. That’s why I suppose he matches right the place he has arrived.”
Mascherano’s warning comes after Foot Mercato reported that Diaz is a ‘priority signing’ for PSG this summer. Despite having the likes of Goncarlo Ramos, Ousmane Dembele and Marco Asensio in their squad, PSG are keen to substitute Mbappe.
The French side are said to have already made contact with Diaz’s agent Raul Pais Da Costa. Diaz is seen as being a participant with an ‘impeccable kingdom of mind’ and ticks many of PSG’s boxes.
While he still has anther three years on his contract, Liverpool’s upcoming trade of manager ought to see Diaz depart. Reds legend Jamie Carragher has additionally hinted that Liverpool should appear to bring in an upgrade on the winger.
“I suppose I’d likely take the young youngster Mainoo. His age, quantity one, I assume he appears like a superstar and he may want to go on to be a real superstar,” Carragher informed The Overlap Fan Debate when asked which Manchester United player he would like to see at the Reds.
“I’m trying to assume who else in the Unied group is better enjoying in their position. Maybe Rashford because Liverpool in the summer, of course below a new manager, however would that be a role you look at?
“Wide left because I think Diaz is good, I do not suppose he is great. So that could be a position. But I suppose with Mainoo in central midfield. Yeah, I would go with him simply for the age factor.”
