🔴 Football: French forward Bradley Barcola joins Liverpool from PSG in record-breaking Ligue 1 transfer

Liverpool finalised the most expensive transfer of the summer window by signing Bradley Barcola from Paris Saint-Germain on Monday in a deal worth around £123 million ($166 million). Liverpool secured its main target of the summer after a monthslong pursuit of a speedy 23-year-old France international who is coming off winning back-to-back Champions League titles with PSG but mainly as an impact substitute, backing up Désiré Doué. To display this content from X (Twitter), you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Now Barcola will expect to be a key part of an expensively assembled Liverpool attack that also includes striker Alexander Isak and Florian Wirtz, who were signed last summer for £125 million ($170 million) and £116 million ($156 million), respectively. Barcola is primarily a left winger so isn't a like-for-like replacement for Liverpool great Mohamed Salah, who played on the right for nine years before leaving for Trabzonspor to end a trophy-laden spell at Anfield. The deal will see Liverpool paying £106 million ($143 million) for Barcola, who was part of the France team which lost in the semifinals to Spain at the World Cup this summer, and up to a...