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Hannah Pinnock

Jurgen Klopp told to make 'cheeky low ball' bid for former Liverpool star

Stan Collymore has urged Liverpool to re-sign Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum.

The Dutch international has endured a challenging season so far in Ligue 1 and has already been linked with a move away.

Wijnaldum ended a five-year stay at Anfield when he departed for the French capital last summer, but Collymore believes he could still be a key player for Jurgen Klopp.

“Wijnaldum is having a proper wobbler at Paris Saint-Germain and, despite the fact he’s earning a king’s ransom, if I were Jurgen Klopp I’d chance my arm with a cheeky low-ball offer to try to get him back to Liverpool," he told The Mirror.

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“He’s 32 in November, the same age as Jordan Henderson and four years younger than James Milner, and he’d be a great player for the youngsters at Anfield such as Harvey Elliott and Curtis Jones to learn from, too.

“I’m not usually a fan of going back but if there’s a cheap deal to be done, my old club could still be getting a proper, top-level performer.

“He knows the way they play, he knows the manager well, he knows the dressing-room well, and if PSG would say, ‘Look, we’ll get him off the wage bill for free or even £5million or £8m’, you’d take him."

Wijnaldum admitted back in October he 'isn't completely happy' with the situation at PSG, prompting links to the likes of Arsenal, Liverpool and most recently, Atletico Madrid.

He said: "I can't say I'm completely happy, because the situation is not what I wanted. But that's football and I'll have to learn to deal with that. I'm a fighter.

"I have to stay positive and work hard to turn it around. I have played a lot in recent years, was always fit and also did very well.

“This is something different and that takes getting used to. I was really looking forward to the new step and then this happens. It is very difficult."

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