Liverpool Fans Given Renewed Hope of Naby Keita Move Following Leipzig Director's Offensive Comments

Liverpool fans have been given renewed hope of RB Leipzig midfielder Naby Keita forcing a move to Merseyside this summer, after the German club's sporting director blamed 'a whole village in Guinea' for turning the 22-year-old's head with regards to a move. 

In ill-advised comments while speaking at a coaching convention, Rangnick claimed that members of the player's entourage - or the aforementioned Guinean village - were telling his players what to do - a clear reference to Keita's Guinean background. 

“There should be someone who points them into the right direction," he said. "The boys themselves are not the problem here. It is their surroundings. A whole village in Guinea or somebody from their entourage tells the players why they must do something right away. I can’t blame the players.”

Rangnick's comments - misguided at best and outright racist are worst - could well strengthen Keita's case for a move away from Leipzig; a city which, at 582,277 inhabitants, is roughly a third of the size of Conakry - the Guinean city in which Keita was born. 

Fans on social media were quick to react to the comments: 

The saga, as ever, continues...