Liverpool's Winger Hunt Continues: Ajax's Mika Godts on Radar

Liverpool’s winger hunt is far from over.

They have already raided La Liga for Osasuna’s Victor Munoz, winning a straight fight with Newcastle United and laying down £35 million for a 22-year-old built for Anfield’s left flank. That deal ticked one box on Andoni Iraola’s summer wishlist, but not all of them. Liverpool still want another left-sided threat.

For a moment, it looked as though Yan Diomande might be that man. Liverpool were believed to be weighing up an £86 million offer for the RB Leipzig forward, only for Real Madrid to move into pole position and drag the saga towards the Bernabeu. So the search swings on, and the focus has shifted north, to Amsterdam.

Liverpool eye Ajax livewire as elite queue forms

At Ajax, Mika Godts has stopped being a prospect and started looking like a problem for defenders. Last season he produced the kind of numbers that make recruitment departments sit up: 17 goals and 15 assists in 44 appearances, a “superstar” return for a 21-year-old still learning his craft.

He has not eased into the new campaign either. Ajax have opened their UEFA Conference League qualifying campaign with back‑to‑back 4-1 wins over Vojvodina, and Godts has supplied an assist in each game, carrying his form straight into 2026/27.

Those performances have travelled. Arsenal have taken notice. Manchester United are watching. Tottenham are in the conversation. Now Liverpool are in that same line, with TEAMtalk listing the Merseysiders among the clubs weighing up a move for the Belgian winger.

The timing matters. Over the weekend, Liverpool and their Premier League rivals were told that the competition has just become even more serious.

PSG make their move

Paris Saint‑Germain, still reshaping their attack and fresh from missing out on Diomande themselves, have stepped up their pursuit of Godts. The French champions are understood to have held positive discussions over a transfer, with football advisor Luis Campos a strong admirer and convinced the winger fits Luis Enrique’s long-term blueprint at the Parc des Princes.

PSG have now submitted an opening bid. It is the first concrete move in a race that had, until then, been driven largely by scouting trips and internal debates. Godts is open to the idea of Ligue 1 and the glamour of Paris, but he knows what that would mean: a fight for minutes in one of the most competitive forward lines in Europe.

Ajax, as ever, will sell on their terms. The Dutch club value Godts at around £51 million, a sizeable figure for a player yet to test himself in one of Europe’s top five leagues, but still a cut‑price alternative to Diomande in the current market.

Technical director Jordi Cruyff has already set the tone publicly, confirming over the weekend that “Godts will leave” — but stressing it will only happen at the right time and for the right price.

That stance leaves the door open. The question now is who walks through it first: PSG with their early bid and Parisian pull, or a Premier League giant willing to move quickly and bet big on Ajax’s next export.