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Coronavirus stopped Chelsea-bound Timo Werner joining Liverpool, insists Jamie Carragher
Liverpool signing Timo Werner before Chelsea recently swooped in to land the £50m striker.RB Leipzig hitman Werner seems set to join Frank Lampard’s Blues this summer after months of being linked with Liverpool.Werner was likely to be much needed by Jurgen Klopp’s soon to be Premier League champions next season when Mo Salah and Sadio Mane headed to the Africa Cup of Nations in January.But with the winter tournament likely to ditched now, Carragher reckons Lampard persuaded Werner to join his group of firing young guns instead.The Sky Sports pundit said: “I honestly believe that if the pandemic hadn’t happened then Timo Werner would have been a Liverpool player.“I don’t think it was all about money.“There won’t be an Olympic tournament, an