Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has made big headlines in world football this week with a host of clubs interested in securing his services before the January transfer window shuts. Liverpool have emerged as one potential destination, having been long-term admirers of the Napoli winger.

However, it's been suggested that any transfer this move is unlikely this winter. Arne Slot already has six frontmen for his three-man attack at Anfield in Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez, Mohamed Salah, Diogo Jota, Federico Chiesa and Cody Gakpo.

Besides links to Liverpool, Chelsea are also said to be in the mix but it's the French champions Paris Saint-Germain that are started a 'concrete attack' to secure Kvaratskhelia's signature. "Paris Saint-Germain started a concrete attack for Kvaratskhelia," Fabrizio Romano has said in a recent update shared on YouTube.

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"That was an exclusive update but it doesn't mean that a deal is done. It means that PSG are in negotiations with Napoli."

Here, the ECHO has taken a look at the latest news surrounding Kvaratskhelia.

'Verbal agreement'

Italian journalist Gianluca Di Marzio claims Napoli have 'scheduled a meeting' for next week with Paris Saint-Germain for Kvaratskhelia. It's said a 'verbal agreement' has already been reached between player and club.

PSG are thought to be willing to offer between €70-€75million for his services. However, if a deal fails to materialise, they would be open to including Milan Skriniar on loan and cover all his wages.

Roma's Lorenzo Pellegrini and FC Porto's Galeno are said to being 'evaluated' as potential back-up options.

Arne Slot comments

The Reds head coach has refused to get drawn into the latest transfer rumours. In his press-conference on Friday, he said: "When you said yourself 'linked with', I was thinking: 'Which club is he going to say now?'

"But you mean as a club we are linked with Kvaratskhelia. What I make of that is that this is January and I think I said it after the West Ham United game [to journalists], please don't disappoint me, please come up with all these players and all these clubs that are in the interest of us.

"Or the ones that don't play a lot for us are going to go somewhere else. That [speculation] is what is happening now. And nine out of 10 times or 99 out of 100 times, at the end of the window it's been clear that almost all of these stories weren't true.

"So what can I comment about it? The rumours keep going for it but no comment from my side."

Liverpool stance

The ECHO's Liverpool correspondent Paul Gorst wrote: "If the emergence of Liverpool's interest in Kvaratskhelia this week doesn't necessarily mean that a deal for the Georgia superstar is imminent, it does at least did indicate that it is busier behind the scenes than the front of house sometimes suggests at Anfield.

"Whether Kvaratskhelia has been earmarked as a potential replacement in the event of an out-of-contract Mohamed Salah departing - and there is no suggestion of that at this stage - or whether the posterboy of Georgian football has been lined to further supplement an attacking department bursting at the seams with quality; their interest, however tentative at this stage, shows the level of player that is being tracked by a new-look backroom team being led by Slot and sporting director Richard Hughes.

"The Liverpool ECHO understands that there is yet to be any formal contact between Liverpool and Napoli this month regarding Kvaratskhelia's transfer. But the winger is a player that has been on the club's radar ever since he emerged as one of Serie A's finest talents and the club are long-term admirers of him."