Liverpool reject £12m offer for Wataru Endo from Marseille with Roberto De Zerbi eager to sign midfielder after landing Mason Greenwood

Marseille are looking to bounce back after their poor season in Ligue 1 which saw them finish in seventh and miss out on European football for the upcoming season. Following the departure of Jean-Louis Gasset, they brought on Roberto de Zerbi and the Italian has already enacted the signings of the likes of Mason Greenwood, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and Ismael Kone, among others.

As per The Mirror, Marseille's next target is Liverpool's Endo, for whom Les Phoceens tabled a £12 million bid, which was immediately turned down by the Reds as the Premier League side have no interest in letting the Japanese midfielder leave Anfield this summer.

Liverpool signed Endo from Stuttgart last summer for a reported fee of £16.2 million ($20.7m) after the Reds missed out on the signing of Moises Caicedo and Romeo Lavia, both of whom preferred big-money moves to Chelsea instead.

While the Japanese midfielder was not an outright starter for Jurgen Klopp last season, new Liverpool boss Arne Slot has claimed that he will make his decisions about the squad after the end of the preseason and it is possible that Endo could become a pivotal player for the side under Slot.