RB Leipzig have told Liverpool that Naby Keita is not for sale at any price after turning down a \u20ac68 million bid last week, a source has told ESPN FC.<\/p>\n
Earlier this summer, German media had quoted an unofficial price tag of \u20ac80m (\u00a370m) for Keita and\u00a0Liverpool are reported to be planning to meet that valuation<\/a>, but Leipzig insist that there is “no figure” that could sway their minds on the 22-year-old Guinea international.<\/p>\n “We will not enter into negotiations at all,” a club source told ESPN FC. “A decision has been made that none of our key players will be sold and we’re sticking to it.”<\/p>\n RB sporting director Ralf Rangnick is determined that Leipzig give a good account of themselves in the Champions League and challenge Bayern Munich for the Bundesliga in the coming season.<\/p>\n The club’s head coach, Ralph Hasenhuttl, has said Keita and Emil Forsberg “feel great” at the Bundesliga club despite continued speculation over their futures.<\/p>\n “You can see that they feel great here and are looking forward to the new season,” Hasenhuttl told\u00a0kicker<\/a>\u00a0after the pair returned to training. “They know very well what they have here.<\/p>\n “It’s a huge compliment for us that we awoke such desires, but it’s not the general idea of our path to allow players a transfer following the first available offer. Our goal is to become a big and established club, and what we did this summer is a substantial step towards it.”<\/p>\n Privately, Leipzig are aware that Keita’s representative may to attempt a final push for a move in coming weeks, but last season’s Bundesliga runners-up remain determined to rebuff any further approaches.<\/p>\n Keita, however, might yet become a Liverpool player in 2018 as a release clause in his contract would allow him to leave in 12 months’ time for \u20ac55m.<\/p>\n However, kicker reported Forsberg has no such clause in his deal, which he\u00a0only signed in February<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RB Leipzig have told Liverpool that Naby Keita is not for sale at any price after turning down a \u20ac68 million bid last week, a source has told ESPN FC. Earlier this summer, German media had quoted an unofficial price tag of \u20ac80m (\u00a370m) for Keita and\u00a0Liverpool are reported to be planning to meet that … Continue reading “RB Leipzig warn Liverpool that Naby Keita not for sale at any price”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-naby-keita","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/b-c-e.us\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/b-c-e.us\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/b-c-e.us\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/b-c-e.us\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/b-c-e.us\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/b-c-e.us\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"http:\/\/b-c-e.us\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/b-c-e.us\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/b-c-e.us\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/b-c-e.us\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}