Liverpool may soon have their own equivalent to Kevin De Bruyne on their hands – Our View

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Every club has a tale of a player they let go too soon.

Arsenal probably wish they still had Serge Gnabry, Manchester United paid through the nose to bring Paul Pogba back after letting him go and Man City may have had plenty of sleepless nights over Jerome Boateng.

However, the absolute worst team for this type of thing has to be Chelsea. Mohamed Salah and Romelu Lukaku were two notable transfer blunders, but perhaps the biggest mistake the Blues ever made was letting Kevin De Bruyne go before he blossomed.

Man City were the benefactors of Chelsea’s misfortune, signing De Bruyne from Wolfsburg just a few years after he’d left Stamford Bridge, and it has to be said that the deal to bring De Bruyne to the Etihad was one of the Premier League’s best ever.

City could be about to do something very similar with Danny Ings, but this time, it may be Liverpool who live to regret their short-sightedness.

Indeed, the Reds sold Ings for just £20m, and while that isn’t a bad fee, he’s worth a whole lot more now, and City are looking at signing him.

The fact that Pep Guardiola wants him tells you all you need to know about his talents, but the fact that he netted 21 Premier League goals last term is the truest indicator of how prolific he is.

During a time where Liverpool’s own number nine is coming under a lot of criticism, Ings is being looked at by one of the Reds’ biggest rivals, and if he comes in and fires City to even more silverware over the next few years, Liverpool will be rueing their decision to let him go even more than they already are.

Chelsea letting De Bruyne go looked like a mistake when he was at Wolfsburg, but it was joining City that really hammered home what an error they’d made, and while Ings has looked sensational at Southampton, we can’t help but feel he’d be even better at City, and that would surely be a similarly bitter pill to swallow for Liverpool.

Ings isn’t a player of the same quality as De Bruyne, but given Liverpool’s current striking woes, they could live to regret losing him in the same way Chelsea must be kicking themselves over De Bruyne.