Minamino In Talks For St Mary's Return
According to reports in the North West, Takumi Minamino could be set for a return to the South Coast with his agent said to be in talks with Saints after Liverpool have confirmed that the striker can depart this summer.
Takumi Minamino had a strange time in his loan spell at St Mary's, he started 9 games plus another as sub and scored twice both in his opening 3 games, but after that he seemed to fall out of favour with Ralph Hasenhuttl a little.
But the Austrian has spoken glowingly in the press about Minamino and now it seems that he might return to Southampton, if reports from Merseyside are to be believed.
According to Liverpool based reporter David Lynch, the Japanese international is about to depart Anfield and Southampton have met with the player’s agent, with the price set to be around £17 million.
Lynch had this to say:
"Takumi Minamino closing in on an #LFC departure with his agent having flown to Europe to field interest from Leeds, Southampton, Wolves, Fulham and Monaco. Situation likely to be resolved quickly — Liverpool hoping to secure £17m.”
I would doubt that it will be resolved that quickly, Minamino is likely to want to see out the final weeks of June in order to get his end of season loyalty bonus.
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