Liverpool target Yan Diomande would prefer to join Paris St-Germain, as the French club aim to agree a deal with RB Leipzig for the Ivory Coast winger.

Diomande's reported preference for PSG over Liverpool is a small data point in a larger pattern: Ligue 1's recruitment pipeline into Francophone Africa is increasingly competing with the Premier League for the continent's top young talent, with real consequences for which European clubs and which sell on economics shape African football's revenue flows.














