Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has reiterated that he will be interested in signing Icelandic midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson if his former club Swansea cannot close a deal.Sigurdsson was on loan with Swansea last season from German outfit Hoffenheim and the Welsh side are in pole position to snap up the 22-year-old, who turned in a number of impressive performances under Rodgers when he joined the club in January.
Rodgers has since left Swansea for Anfield, and has taken his appreciation of Sigurdsson with him, though he accepts his former team must have first crack at taking the Iceland star on a permanent basis.
If that does not happen though, Rodgers is more than ready to pounce.
"I took him on loan for the second half of last season and he did very, very well. He scored seven goals and made a real, positive contribution", Rodgers told Liverpool’s official site.
"I wanted to sign him for Swansea but, like I’ve said to him and his representatives, that has to be his first port of call.
"If he comes into the market for whatever reason – and I’m sure there’ll be a number of clubs interested in Gylfi – then of course I would like to be in a position to put our case here at Liverpool to sign him.
"But I’ve always said, I think he’s a player Swansea have had an agreement with and they have to have every chance to try and sign him. That’s only right."
While all eyes are on Euro 2012, Rodgers is quietly going about his business with Liverpool and drawing up his list of summer transfer targets.
Estimates of how much the Northern Irishman has been handed to spend by the club’s owners vary, but it is thought to be a figure north of £30M, with any proceeds from player sales being added on top of that.
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