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Dnipro 'a thousand per cent sure' Yevhen Konoplyanka WILL join Liverpool in the summer
DNIPRO executive director Andriy Rusol says he is "a thousand per cent sure" Liverpool will return for Yevhen Konoplyanka in the summer and has admitted the Ukrainian club will let the player leave.
Liverpool failed with a late bid to sign Konoplyanka but were unable to push through the move, with disagreement over how the fee would be paid thought to be the stumbling block.
However, Rusol has claimed that money itself was not the problem but rather the lateness of Liverpool's bid that scuppered the deal.
Rusol is certain though that Liverpool will return for Konoplyanka at the end of the season, and claims that Dnipro will be more than willing to do business at that time.
He said: "I am a thousand percent sure that Liverpool will try again in the summer and then we'll let him go.
"Money was not the problem, the problem was that Liverpool came too late.
"But in the summer everything will be fine. If Liverpool, in the summer, report to us, Yevhen will still go to this club."
Rusol also denied that Dnipro president Igor Kolomoisky vetoed the deal.
He added: "Igor Kolomoisky gave the go-ahead immediately. It is not our fault, Liverpool representatives could have arrived a day or two earlier.
"Up to the deadline we were waiting for the transfer of money from Liverpool. But this did not happen."