While Gakpo earns 4.5 million, the salary that the owners did not want to pay Mané

The deal that Cody Gakpo signed was similar to that of Darwin Nunez, in that they will be tied together for 6 years and he will earn just over 4.5 million euros a year. The reality is that the striker had a youth contract at PSV. Liverpool have a very important challenge for the rest of the season as they need to climb the Premier League table and in the Champions League they will face Real Madrid in the last 16. The German manager's intention is to find a new formula to get his team back into the limelight. And it looks like Cody Gakpo could be the glue that binds all his pieces together.

Liverpool have struggled since the departure of Sadio Mané as Jürgen Klopp has failed to find a way to replace him. While it is true that injuries to Luis Diaz and Diogo Jota have been two big problems for this issue, the manager has not found the way forward. At the same time, Darwin Núñez is still not settled in the Premier League and his performances have been worse than expected.

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It is clear that the fact of having Mohamed Salah, generates that Liverpool has the opportunity to hope to lift a season that is quite bad compared to previous years. It is for this reason that the club began to move in the transfer market. In addition to the arrival of Cody Gakpo, the Anfield outfit have also been negotiating the signings of Enzo Fernandez and Jude Bellingham, two other stars who stood out at the World Cup in Qatar.

Mané wanted to be among the highest paid

The signing of Gakpo was rather short-lived because Liverpool put up exactly the figure PSV wanted to let the 23-year-old striker go. The deal between the clubs would have been for 37 million euros fixed, plus another 13 million euros in variables. It is clear that this is a big gamble, but the Dutchman showed an incredible level at the World Cup and Klopp trusts him. It is worth noting that his arrival is to cover the departure of Sadio Mané who decided to leave the club because, according to reports, he wanted a raise in his salary to be one of the best paid at the club along with Salah who earns about 18 million, but the owners denied his request.