Liverpool are willing to listen if the right offer comes for Cody Gakpo, with a fee in the £70M region now understood to be the line that could open the door. The 27-year-old remains under contract through 2030, but the club’s stance has shifted from simple retention to a price that could make a move possible.
That is why Gakpo is suddenly being searched now. Transfer speculation has flared over the past 24 hours, and the question is not whether Liverpool are driving a sale but whether a club decides to test that valuation. The picture matters because Gakpo is not a fringe name; he is part of a forward line that Liverpool would struggle to thin out without feeling the loss.
TalkSport’s Ben Jacobs said Gakpo has not asked to leave Liverpool and that the club are not actively trying to sell him. But the same message carried the wrinkle that matters: Liverpool would not turn down a suitable fee, and that fee is being set around £70M. In transfer terms, that is not a casual number. It is the kind of price that signals a player is available only if a buyer arrives with serious intent.
The interest around him did not appear from nowhere. Gakpo came close to joining Bayern Munich last summer, and he has also been linked with AC Milan. Liverpool, meanwhile, preferred to sell Luis Diaz instead of Gakpo last summer, which underlines how highly he has been valued inside the club even as the market keeps circling him.
There is still friction in the story. The talk around his future has run ahead of the hard facts, and the hard facts do not point to a player pushing for the exit. Ben Jacobs’ line leaves Liverpool in a familiar transfer position: not shopping Gakpo, but prepared to move if the price is right. That distinction matters because a sale would leave Liverpool lighter in attack, with Rio Ngumoha the only established first-team winger mentioned and Alexander Isak the only senior striker available to start the season if Gakpo departed and Hugo Ekitike remained absent until 2027.
The wider pressure on Liverpool’s attack helps explain why the club would even consider that kind of deal. Richard Hughes sold Luis Diaz and Darwin Nuñez last summer and failed to properly replace them, according to the report, which makes any further exit more damaging than it might look on paper. In that sense, a £70M bid would not just be an offer for a 27-year-old forward. It would force Liverpool to decide whether the money is worth another gap they would have to fill immediately.
For now, the next move belongs to the market. Liverpool have not put Gakpo up for sale, and he has not asked to go. But if a club meets the number, the story changes fast, and Liverpool would have to choose between keeping a proven attacker through 2030 or cashing in on one of the few forwards they can still afford to lose.
