(Photos by Ryan Pierse and Alex Caparros/Getty Images)A report on Saturday has indicated that Liverpool could be at risk of seeing a direct Premier League rival hijack their plans to sign a prominent transfer target. However, the more trusted Fabrizio Romano subsequently claimed that club-to-club talks were still ongoing and that an agreement was some way off, and it now seems that the Merseysiders could have fresh competition for the 23-year-old. Arsenal contact Barcola’s campAccording to Graeme Bailey for TEAMtalk, Arsenal have made contact with Barcola’s representatives and are now ‘firmly in the conversation’ to snap up the PSG attacker, in whom Liverpool’s interest is indeed ‘genuine’. The Reds have ‘done the most groundwork’ up to now and are still believed to be in ‘pole position’ for the player, but the threat from north London has made things ‘far from straightforward’. The one line which could prompt worry among Kopites is the Gunners’ apparent readiness to make a ‘significant investment’, which hints that they’d be prepared to go all-out to gazump the Reds for the PSG forward.