Slavia Prague chief Jaroslav Tvrdik has claimed that Liverpool and Chelsea are among the clubs who have shown interest in 20-year-old full-back El Hadji Malick Diouf. Tvrdik has also revealed that Crystal Palace have rejected a second, improved offer worth around £14.3 million for the Senegal international. The Eagles' initial offer was worth around £12.5 million, but it appears Palace are now back in the table and Czech sources have also indicated that Brighton are also on the verge of being in the running. Tvrdik told Kudy Bezi Zajic: “If Liverpool and Chelsea, who were also interested in him, had come with an offer of around 17 to 18 million euros, I would have hesitated to approach it differently from the perspective of promoting of the club or promoting the club.” the interest of the player.
“If Chelsea comes, we wouldn't keep anyone. Nothing will change, it's just objectively not possible. You have to admit that the Czech league and Slavia have some limits. Even PSG, when it comes to destroying the bank, won.” If they don't keep their player, he will go to Real. We are part of a football chain and not at the top of it.” Mirror Football reported in November that as many as nine Premier League clubs had scouted or gathered information about Diouf, although it is unclear whether this is Liverpool or Chelsea. interested, as speculated by Tvrdik.
Slavia are under no pressure to sell this month after losing goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky to Tottenham and winger Matej Jurasek to Norwich City earlier in the transfer window. Last week, the player himself admitted he was in no rush to finalize his next move. He said: “I can see what's going on around me but I'm not distracted by it at all. I concentrate on myself, on Slavia, I have no reason to rush. I told my uncle, my agent, the same thing. He knows everything. “I know that one day I will take the next step. That day is approaching, but I have to be convinced that it happens at the ideal time so that my development is not slowed down.”
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