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title: "Liverpool: Reds want £8m for Taiwo Awoniyi"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/liverpool-reds-want-8m-for-taiwo-awoniyi/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "David Comerford"
section: "Liverpool Football Club"
published: "2021-05-29T11:45:50Z"
modified: "2021-05-29T11:45:50Z"
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# Liverpool: Reds want £8m for Taiwo Awoniyi

**Liverpool are willing to sell striker Taiwo Awoniyi this summer if they receive an offer of £8m, according to [The Athletic](https://theathletic.com/2608070/2021/05/28/konate-deal-done-but-liverpool-will-need-to-sell-before-they-buy-more-players/?source=user-shared-article)‘s James Pearce.**

### The lowdown

The Reds signed Awoniyi from his homeland Nigeria back in 2015 for [just under £1m](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/taiwo-awoniyi/transfers/spieler/295313) but they have been forced to sanction a succession of loan moves while they waited for him to secure a work permit. His switch to Bundesliga outfit Union Berlin ahead of the 2020/21 campaign was his [seventh](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/taiwo-awoniyi/transfers/spieler/295313) temporary exit.

Awoniyi finished the campaign as the team’s [third highest-scorer](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/union-berlin/top-scorers) with five goals, helping them to a seventh-place finish in the German top flight and [qualification](https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/news/union-berlin-rb-leipzig-live-line-ups-stats-nagelsmann-konate-upamecano-adams-15943) for next season’s Europa Conference League.

Mergim Vojvoda, a former team-mate of Awoniyi at Royal Excel Mouscron in Belgium, [hailed him](https://www.lavenir.net/cnt/dmf20190224_01300697/vojvoda-awoniyi-devrait-signer-a-vie-a-mouscron) as “an excellent player with great qualities”, adding that “Taiwo is a forward who needs to showcase his power”.

Earlier this month, the Nigerian was [finally able](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/africa/57161133) to obtain his work permit, meaning he could be part of the Liverpool squad next season, while he has [two years left](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/africa/57161133) on his contract at Anfield.

### The latest

Fulham, West Bromwich and Stoke City have ‘already shown interest’ in the 23-year-old, according to Pearce for [The Athletic](https://theathletic.com/2608070/2021/05/28/konate-deal-done-but-liverpool-will-need-to-sell-before-they-buy-more-players/?source=user-shared-article), and he is seen as one of the club’s more valuable assets after impressing in Germany.

Pearce added that the Reds will listen to offers for a whole host of returning loanees, including Harry Wilson, Marko Grujic and Loris Karius.

### The verdict

Awoniyi may [never have featured for the Reds’ first team](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/taiwo-awoniyi/leistungsdatenverein/spieler/295313), but he could still make an important contribution to Liverpool.

Having sealed the signing of Ibrahima Konate on Friday, [The Athletic](https://theathletic.com/2608070/2021/05/28/konate-deal-done-but-liverpool-will-need-to-sell-before-they-buy-more-players/?source=user-shared-article) claimed that further coming incomings will be ‘influenced by how much is generated from player sales’.

An £8m influx is not to be dismissed. It could represent a decent chunk of the fee for a backup forward or a midfielder, while the potential sale of Awoniyi could be similar to how Liverpool yielded [big fees](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/liverpool-fc/rekordabgaenge/verein/31/plus/0/galerie/0?saison_id=&pos=&detailpos=14&w_s=) for rarely-seen strikers such as [Dominic Solanke](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dominic-solanke/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/258889/verein/31) and [Rhian Brewster](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/rhian-brewster/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/406560/verein/31) in the last couple of years.

**In other news, [could interest from Turkey see this Reds player sold to raise funds?](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/liverpool-fc-transfer-rumours/liverpool-fenerbahce-eye-up-xherdan-shaqiri-signing/)**