Liverpool Eyes Ajax Winger Mika Godts Amid PSG Interest
Liverpool’s winger hunt is not slowing down. Not after this summer’s start, and not with Europe’s elite circling one of Ajax’s brightest talents.
Liverpool reload on the left
Andoni Iraola has already been backed with the £35 million signing of Victor Munoz from Osasuna, a move that saw Liverpool beat Newcastle United to a 22-year-old many in Spain believed was destined for the Premier League. Munoz strengthens the left flank, but inside Anfield there is no sense that the job is done.
Liverpool had explored a blockbuster move for RB Leipzig forward Yan Diomande, with an £86 million offer understood to be in the works. That path now closes, with Diomande seemingly on his way to Real Madrid. So the recruitment team have pivoted.
And they are looking in a familiar place: a talent factory in Amsterdam.
Godts puts Europe on alert
Mika Godts did not just have a good season for Ajax. He produced the kind of numbers that force big clubs to redraw their scouting maps.
- Seventeen goals.
- Fifteen assists.
- Forty-four appearances.
For a 21-year-old winger, those are not just promising figures; they are the sort of “superstar” output that makes technical directors sit up and start running the numbers.
He has not eased into the new campaign, either. Godts has already supplied assists in both of Ajax’s 4-1 wins over Vojvodina in the UEFA Conference League qualifying rounds, picking up where he left off and driving their early European push. The sample size is small, but the message is loud: last season was no one-off.
That form has drawn a familiar cast of suitors. Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham have all been credited with interest, each of them in need of fresh dynamism in the final third. Now Liverpool are firmly in that conversation as well.
TEAMtalk lists the Merseyside club among the potential buyers, and timing suddenly matters. The market around Godts is heating quickly.
PSG make their move
Over the weekend, Liverpool and their Premier League rivals learned that the race has a new frontrunner. Paris Saint-Germain have stepped up their pursuit and, crucially, have submitted a first bid.
PSG had tracked Diomande too, only to see that chase end in disappointment. Rather than dwell on the miss, the French champions have turned decisively towards Godts. Football advisor Luis Campos is understood to be a major driving force, a strong believer that the Belgian winger can grow into a key piece of Luis Enrique’s long-term project at the Parc des Princes.
Talks between PSG and the player’s camp have been described as “positive.” Godts is open to a move to Ligue 1, attracted by the platform and the chance to work under Enrique, but he knows what awaits him in Paris: a fight for minutes in one of Europe’s most competitive attacking units.
Ajax value him at around £51 million. For a winger yet to play in one of the top five leagues, it is a bold price. Compared to the £86 million it would have taken to land Diomande, though, Godts represents a cheaper, high-upside alternative — and that is exactly the kind of equation clubs like Liverpool and PSG are willing to solve.
Ajax ready to cash in – on their terms
Inside Ajax, the situation is clear. Technical director Jordi Cruyff did not bother with vague language over the weekend. He stated publicly that “Godts will leave” — but only “at the right time and for the right price.”
It is a classic Ajax stance, but the wording leaves little doubt: the club expect to sell, and soon. The only questions now are who pays, and how high the fee goes once a bidding war breaks out.
Liverpool have already shown this summer that they are prepared to move aggressively when they identify a target, as Newcastle discovered in the Munoz deal. With Arsenal, Manchester United, Tottenham and now PSG hovering around Godts, hesitation carries a cost.
If Iraola wants another left-sided weapon and Liverpool decide Godts is that player, they may need to do in Amsterdam what they did so ruthlessly on Tyneside — arrive late, move fast, and walk away with someone else’s priority.
