Fabrizio Romano CONFIRMS star’s massive Liverpool U-turn | OneFootball

One star has had a total change of heart over the last month or so. Liverpool have been informed.

It's been a crazy transfer window for Liverpool. They've spent a truly incredible amount of money but also recouped plenty, too.

In fact, despite paying nearly £300m for players, the Reds aren't in the Premier League's top five for net spend. They've been smart about it, even if things are complicated.

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But that's the nature of overhauling your team. Liverpool have a new playmaker, a new centre-forward, new full-backs on either side and their depth at goalkeeper is completely different.

The Reds wanted to move out players who weren't quite working under Arne Slot in order to bring in stars for him. That's a luxury he didn't really have last season as Federico Chiesa was the only incoming first-team player.

However, Slot then barely used Chiesa and an exit was inevitable this summer. Or at least, we all thought it was.

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Federico Chiesa's U-turn

Chiesa looked like an absolute certainty to leave Liverpool this summer. He appeared for a grand total of 108 minutes across the entire Premier League season last time out, with just the one start.

It was accepted, then, that Chiesa would want out. A move back to Italy where he could get regular football makes complete sense ahead of a World Cup.

However, this season has kicked off in style. He was a somewhat surprising substitute against Bournemouth last Friday but Slot was right to take a chance on him - Chiesa scored the decisive goal as Liverpool won 4-2.

And it appears the Italian has had a total change of heart. That's according to Fabrizio Romano.

"Federico Chiesa and his agent have informed Liverpool about clear desire to stay at the club," he writes on Twitter.

"Chiesa considered to leave in June/July when LFC rejected bids for Diaz and Federico was left out of Asian tour.