{"id":24808,"date":"2025-08-14T05:12:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/liverpool-close-to-signing-giovanni-leoni-for-35m-defensive-reinforcement\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T05:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:12:37","slug":"liverpool-close-to-signing-giovanni-leoni-for-35m-defensive-reinforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/liverpool-close-to-signing-giovanni-leoni-for-35m-defensive-reinforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool close to signing Giovanni Leoni for $35M, defensive reinforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Liverpool close to signing Giovanni Leoni<\/h2>\n\nLiverpool is close to finalizing the signing of center-back Giovanni Leoni from Parma, according to sources close to the club.\n\nThe 18-year-old, who had also sparked the interest of Inter Milan, has been given permission to undergo medical tests with Liverpool and will travel to the UK on Thursday to finalize his transfer for an initial fee of \u00a326 million (35 million dollars).\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Liverpool initiates talks with Palace for Gu\u00e9hi.<\/li>\n<li>Premier League matches will have a moment of silence for Jota.<\/li>\n<li>Premier League 2025-26 shirt ranking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nIf the agreement is finalized, Leoni will provide crucial defensive reinforcements to Liverpool following Jarell Quansah&#8217;s departure to Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nHe will join Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konat\u00e9, and Joe Gomez as center-back options for coach Arne Slot next season, having played 17 Serie A matches 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\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Giovanni Leoni podr\u00eda reforzar la defensa del Liverpool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nEarlier this week, Liverpool also initiated talks with Crystal Palace to sign English center-back Marc Gu\u00e9hi.\n\nThe South London club is expecting a fee of around \u00a330 million ($41 million) plus \u00a35 million ($7 million) in add-ons, according to sources.\n\nA Gu\u00e9hi has one year left on his contract with Palace and chairman Steve Parish admitted earlier this week that they might be forced to let him go this summer.\n\nLiverpool also received a timely defensive boost ahead of the Premier League home opener against Bournemouth with Gomez&#8217;s return to training.\n\nThe 28-year-old player, the current player with the longest tenure at the club, returned home early from the Asia tour with an Achilles tendon injury and was subsequently sidelined for three weeks.\n\nBut he was photographed with the rest of his teammates on Wednesday as preparations intensify for the defending champions&#8217; season opener at Anfield.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool close to signing Giovanni Leoni Liverpool is close to finalizing the signing of center-back Giovanni Leoni from Parma, according to sources close to the club. The 18-year-old, who had also sparked the interest of Inter Milan, has been given permission to undergo medical tests with Liverpool and will travel to the UK on Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[591,7225,138,7165],"class_list":{"0":"post-24808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-defense","8":"tag-giovanni-leoni","9":"tag-liverpool","10":"tag-marc-guehi"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24808","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=24808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}