Emre Can demands £200k-a-week deal to stay at Liverpool

Emre Can’s departure from Liverpool is not cut and dried and the midfielder could opt to extend his Anfield stay if his contract demands are met, according to a report.

The Daily Mirror claim Can will demand wages of £200,000 to sign a new deal after rejecting a new deal to stay on Merseyside.

The 24-year-old is out of contract in the summer and reports suggested the Germany midfielder was after a release clause in any prospective new contract, but now it has emerged that if Liverpool significantly improve his terms he could stay on.

Can is on around £70,000 a week after siginng from Bayer Leverkusen in July 2014, but the tabloid report that Liverpool are “unlikely” to agree to those demands – which would comfortably ,ake him the club’s highest-paid player.

Juventus and Man City are keen on Can and the Serie A champions have apparently offered the Germany midfielder a €4.5million-a-year contract over five years to make the move this summer – which equates to around  €86,000 a week.

Last week Can admitted he was unsure of his future.

“I have the self-confidence to say that my qualities are sufficient to play in a very big club next season,” he told German outlet SportBild.

“I’m doing great in England. Here it is is physical and that suits me. The Spanish league is also attractive.

“The same applies to Germany, where tactics are concerned, and Italy, which has recently caught up.

“Incidentally, the same applies to France, this league has now established itself as one of the best in Europe.

“Therefore, I do not want to exclude anything because I do not know what I will do from summer.”