{"id":24547,"date":"2025-08-13T16:14:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/liverpool-close-to-signing-giovanni-leoni-key-defensive-reinforcement\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:14:52","slug":"liverpool-close-to-signing-giovanni-leoni-key-defensive-reinforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/liverpool-close-to-signing-giovanni-leoni-key-defensive-reinforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool close to signing Giovanni Leoni: Key defensive reinforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Liverpool close to defensive reinforcements: Giovanni Leoni in sight<\/h2>\n\n\nLiverpool is about to finalize the signing of central defender Giovanni Leoni, from Parma, according to reports. The 18-year-old has sparked the interest of several clubs, including Inter Milan, but everything indicates that his future will be at Anfield for an initial sum of \u00a326 million ($35 million).\n\nIf the transfer is confirmed, Leoni would join the squad to reinforce the defense, following the departure of Jarell Quansah to Bayer Leverkusen. He would join Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konat\u00e9 and Joe Gomez as options for the center of defense under the management of Arne Slot. Leoni had 17 appearances in Serie A with Parma last season.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0813%2Fr1531391_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Giovanni Leoni es el objetivo del Liverpool para reforzar su defensa.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Giovanni Leoni es el objetivo del Liverpool para reforzar su defensa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nLiverpool have also initiated talks with Crystal Palace for English defender Marc Gu\u00e9hi. The London club is expecting an offer close to \u00a330 million ($41 million) plus \u00a35 million ($7 million) in add-ons.\n\nGu\u00e9hi has one year remaining on his contract with Palace, and chairman Steve Parish admitted they could be forced to let him go this summer.\n\nIn addition, Liverpool received good news with the return of Joe Gomez to training, preparing for the start of the Premier League.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool close to defensive reinforcements: Giovanni Leoni in sight Liverpool is about to finalize the signing of central defender Giovanni Leoni, from Parma, according to reports. The 18-year-old has sparked the interest of several clubs, including Inter Milan, but everything indicates that his future will be at Anfield for an initial sum of \u00a326 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[591,7225,138,7165],"class_list":{"0":"post-24547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-defense","9":"tag-giovanni-leoni","10":"tag-liverpool","11":"tag-marc-guehi"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}