Liverpool are making a habit of gazumping Newcastle on transfer targets. One summer ago, it was Hugo Ekitké who the Reds stole from their Premier League rivals’s clutches. Almost one year on, news broke that Liverpool have now agreed a surprise deal for Osasuna winger Víctor Muñoz.
Muñoz had been in talks with Newcastle, but now appears set to join an ever-growing list of targets the Magpies couldn’t quite get over the line in recent years.
