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Liverpool have now agreed a deal to signal Milos Kerkez from Bournemouth following months of hypothesis over the left-back’s future.
Kerkez is ready to turn into the most costly full-back signing Liverpool have ever made, with the Reds agreeing to pay Bournemouth round £40 million for the 21-year-old.
The Athletic‘s David Ornstein experiences the Hungarian has agreed a five-year contract that can maintain him on Merseyside till 2030 and can bear a medical subsequent week.
Switch journalist Fabrizio Romano experiences the medical is anticipated to happen on Tuesday, that means an official unveiling ought to come on Wednesday.
A £40 million charge makes Kerkez the Twelfth-most costly signing in Liverpool’s historical past.
The one defender Liverpool have ever spent extra on is Virgil van Dijk, who the Reds purchased from Southampton for £75 million in January 2018.
Kerkez additionally strikes from the south coast and can play to the captain’s left, as a flying full-back to assist the assault in large areas.
He’s the primary left-back the Reds have signed since Kostas Tsimikas arrived for £11.75 million in 2020, coming at a time when Andy Robertson considers a departure to Atletico Madrid.
It was again in November that Liverpool had been first severely linked with a transfer for Kerkez, and the rumours have progressively ramped up since.
When requested concerning the full-back in February, Arne Slot stated: “He’s having an amazing season as many, many, many different gamers listed below are as nicely.
“That exhibits you most likely how good of a supervisor you might have over right here, what an amazing sporting director you had over right here – and possibly nonetheless have, I don’t understand how the one now’s doing.
“[Richard Hughes] introduced in superb gamers and this supervisor works with them in an unbelievable method, as a result of he brings the very best out of each single participant – together with the one you simply talked about, however I’m not speaking about a person.
“They’re all bringing the very best out of their recreation in the mean time.”
