The story here has effectively closed. A reported move taking 16-year-old Hertha BSC midfielder Kennet Eichhorn to Liverpool has collapsed, and the live picture now points firmly elsewhere: Bayer Leverkusen are the destination carrying all of the current likelihood, while Liverpool sit at nothing. Whatever interest once existed, the present state is plain — this particular switch is no longer happening, and Leverkusen, not Liverpool, are where the next chapter is being written. The reporting rests on a single voice. Florian Plettenberg, a well-regarded and credible reporter, has carried this in two updates — one a day ago, the most recent ten hours ago. That is honest, decent sourcing from a reliable name, but it is one reporter rather than a chorus, so treat it as a credible single thread rather than a corroborated, multi-source story. The two percent figure tells you this is a longshot, not a contest. For the Liverpool move to revive, the collapse would have to reverse and a destination already drawing all the momentum, Leverkusen, would have to be beaten off. Neither looks likely. The number is low precisely because the deal is described as dead and the competing link holds the entire share of probability — there is simply very little left for Liverpool to grab. Liverpool have spent heavily out of Germany before, paying Leverkusen £106m in 2025, so the appetite for German talent is real. This, though, would have been a far smaller, younger gamble. Watch whether Leverkusen formalise their move and whether Plettenberg, or anyone else, reports any late Liverpool re-entry before the window shuts.