Prem club told they should be ‘disappointed’ with £35m Liverpool deal

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Brighton and Hove Albion will be ‘a little bit disappointed’ as Alexis Mac Allister closes in on a move to Premier League giants Liverpool at a fee Simon Jordan sees as ‘below market value’. 

There remains some uncertainty about exactly how much Liverpool are paying for Argentina’s World Cup-winning playmaker. 

Fabrizio Romano insists that Alexis Mac Allister, who will soon undergo a medical at Anfield before signing a deal until the summer of 2027, will set Jurgen Klopp’s side far less than the rumoured £60 million. 

Due to a clause in his contract, a bid of just £35 million may do the trick; former Crystal Palace owner Jordan wondering why Mac Allister is being allowed to leave for such a sum just months after signing a new deal at the Amex. 

Liverpool close in on Brighton’s Alexis Mac Allister

“I don’t think Brighton have particularly tied him up have they. What did they achieve (by getting him to sign a new deal)?” Jordan tells talkSPORT (6 June, 10am). 

“You’ve got a World Cup winner coming back. They tied him up to be able to give him to Liverpool at a (fee) properly below market value.”

Mac Allister reportedly a target for the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea. But he will instead become one of the first building blocks in Klopp’s Anfield rebuild.  

“I imagine (Brighton) will be a little bit disappointed with the situation,” Jordan adds. “Because it’s happening rather quickly. I thought that we’d got Mac Allister tied up in a situation where someone was going to have to pay top money for him. Top money.  

“I’d have wanted more for him. I want these big clubs that come along and take everyone else’s vision and don’t do it themselves, to have to pay the prerequisite price for it.”

Mac Allister will not be the only new midfielder on his way to Liverpool; Naby Keita, Arthur Melo, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and James Milner all heading out the door. 

Klopp looks set to miss out on Mason Mount, Manuel Ugarte, Ryan Gravenberch and Jude Bellingham, with attention now turning to French duo Manu Kone (Borussia Monchengladbach) and Khephren Thuram of Nice.