Cody Gakpo Transfer Update: Liverpool Holds Strong as Tottenham Eyes Move
Cody Gakpo’s name has slipped back into the transfer conversation, and this time it comes with a familiar Premier League twist. Tottenham are watching. Liverpool are listening — but not moving.
The Dutch forward has become one of the more intriguing stories of the summer window, a player who sits somewhere between indispensable and expendable, depending on who you ask and what fee you imagine.
Transfer specialist Fabrizio Romano framed it crisply: there is interest from Tottenham in Gakpo, and other clubs are exploring whether a deal is even feasible. Liverpool, for now, have not given the green light to an exit and remain happy with him. Any decision, Romano added, will not arrive “during the World Cup” and will take time.
That distinction matters. Interest is just noise until someone puts a number on the table. Clubs “trying to understand” a deal are still at the stage of sounding out agents, gauging appetite, testing the room. Liverpool are not pushing him out, and that sets the tone.
Liverpool in No Rush
Liverpool’s position is strong and, crucially, calm. Gakpo is not a peripheral figure being nudged towards the door to tidy up the wage bill. He still has clear value to the squad and to the way the team can be shaped.
He can start wide on the left. He can operate centrally. He can offer a different look in games that demand something slightly more subtle between the lines. That flexibility is gold in a season that will demand rotation, depth and reliability.
Selling a player like that only makes sense if two conditions are met: the money is too good to ignore, and the club already has a convincing plan for what comes next. Right now, neither of those pieces is publicly in place.
Tottenham’s interest, on the other hand, is easy to read. Gakpo ticks almost every box for a modern forward: Premier League minutes, international pedigree, and the ability to threaten in multiple zones rather than being locked into a single role. He is not a pure winger, not just a central striker, not only a false nine. He is all of them at different moments.
Players with that profile rarely come cheap. Nor should they.
The World Cup Factor
Romano’s line about timing is not a throwaway. A World Cup has a way of distorting the market. One hot month can inflate a price. One quiet tournament can cool a chase that had been building for weeks.
Clubs know this. They have been burned by tournament form before. That is why Liverpool are content to wait, watch, and avoid emotional decisions. There is no urgency to rush a call on Gakpo when Tottenham and others are still working out whether a deal is even realistic.
For Liverpool, patience is not just a strategy; it is leverage.
A Domestic Rival at the Door
This is the point where the conversation becomes sharper. Selling Gakpo abroad would be one thing. Selling him to Tottenham is another.
Any move to north London would not be a simple squad tweak. It would be a direct reinforcement of a domestic rival, a club with ambitions of pushing deep into the same European places Liverpool expect to occupy. Lose Gakpo, and Liverpool do not just lose a body; they lose a proven attacking option who understands the league and the demands of Anfield.
Every player has a price. Liverpool know that as well as anyone. But there is a difference between listening and encouraging, between being open to a monster offer and inviting negotiation.
If Tottenham truly want Gakpo, they will have to make Liverpool uncomfortable — financially, strategically, maybe even emotionally. Until that moment arrives, this remains what it is: interest, whispers, and early manoeuvres.
And as long as that is the case, Liverpool stay exactly where they like to be in any transfer saga involving a key asset: firmly, unmistakably in control.
