With Burnley striker Danny Ings set to join Liverpool when his contract expires at the beginning of July, forgotten hit-man Fabio Borini is set to hold showdown talks with the Reds hierarchy as the Italian looks to sort out a future that has always looked like it would be more fruitful away from Merseyside.
After spending the previous season on loan with Sunderland, the 24-year old had a number of opportunities to leave the Anfield outfit on a permanent basis over the summer. Liverpool had accepted bids from both the Black Cats as well as on transfer deadline day from Queens Park Rangers, but Borini apparently had no interest making a move away with his agent insisting throughout the transfer window that he’d prefer to fight for a spot in the starting eleven. After a season on the bench, unsurprisingly, that hard-line stance has changed.
Although he has two years left to run on his current contract, it sounds like Borini isn’t content riding the pine at Anfield any more. “Soon we will have to talk to Liverpool,” his agent Marco De Marchi told Italian media outlet Calcio Mercato in a recent interview. “Several teams have asked for Fabio on loan, but the Reds board have always refused, especially in light of the offer of €18m that was sent last year from Sunderland,” he continued. “What matters to him is to find a team of the top level, with a good project and he also wants an opportunity to perhaps play in the European cups.”
Serie A clubs Inter Milan, who spoke of their frustrations at trying to bring Borini in already, as well as Lazio have both been heavily linked with a move for the 24-year this summer. With strike duo Divock Origi and Danny Ings set to meet up with the Liverpool squad in the coming weeks, there’s little surprise that Borini is looking to get out of town sharpish. With a mere 12-league appearances and a solitary goal to his name last season, it’s quite clear that he’s not in boss Brendan Rodgers plans.
