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Liverpool holding talks with Ukraine winger Konoplyanka
Liverpool may make €20m bid for Dnipro player before end of transfer window
FC Dinipro winger Yevhen Konoplyanka is reportedly in talks about a move to Liverpool.Photograph: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP
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Wed, Jan 29, 2014, 09:37
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Liverpool are holding talks with Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk over the potential signing of winger Yevhen Konoplyanka.
Sources have said Liverpool are “testing the water” to see if Dnipro are willing to sell now as the 24-year-old winger was initially identified as a target for the summer.
Contrary to reports, Liverpool’s head of recruitment Dave Fallows has not travelled out to Dnipropetrovsk and managing director Ian Ayre is believed to be handling negotiations, although not in Ukraine.
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However, with less than two days remaining in the January transfer window it may prove a task too far to push through a deal which would likely cost Liverpool €20 million.
The Reds have been given some hope it remains a possibility after the Ukraine international’s father Oleg said there was a potential deal in the offing.
“I do not want to say specifically but the information about a transfer to the English club is true,” he told Ukrainian media outlet Tribuna.
“He can change club later this week. We do not consider offers from Ukraine.”