Liverpool target Nabil Fekir has denied suggestions that he has an agreement to leave Lyon in the summer and insisted that he hasn’t even approached the club hierarchy to ask for a transfer.
The 24-year-old attacking midfielder’s future at Lyon has come under the scanner after reports emerged recently that the Ligue 1 club have agreed a deal to sell him to Liverpool.
Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas vehemently denied the speculation and his family also came out in support of the French club, insisting no such deal is in place for Fekir to leave.
The player has now come out to clarify the situation and insisted that neither he nor Lyon have agreed any deal for him to leave the club at the end of the season and he is not even thinking about such a scenario at the moment.
The Frenchman admits that at some point he will leave Lyon, but stressed that he has not approached Aulas or the club hierarchy to request a transfer as he wants to focus on the end of the season for the club.
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Clarifying the speculation surrounding his future, Fekir told L’Equipe: “Yes I read that I was sold somewhere.
“I am at Lyon, there are two games left and then we’ll see. I guarantee you at the moment there is nothing. The president trusts me and I am happy at Lyon.
“As with every player while signing the contract the president said that we would discuss the day I would like to leave.
“There is no player who says, ‘I’ll sign for life at a club’. It’s not like that here too but I have no agreement to leave at the end of the season.
“I have a contract until June 2020 and then fate will decide.”
Asked if he has knocked on Aulas’ door to request a transfer yet, he said: “No and you can ask him.
“We have an important end to the season and it is not the moment. The thought hasn’t even occurred to me.
“I try to live each day as it comes.”
