Milos Kerkez switch information: Liverpool more and more assured of signing Bournemouth left-back | Soccer Information

Liverpool are rising more and more assured of signing Milos Kerkez from Bournemouth.

The south-coast membership have set a price ticket of round £40m for the 21-year-old left-back, who has three years left on his contract.

Kerkez is known to be eager on the transfer and private phrases usually are not anticipated to be an issue.

The Hungary worldwide has been one in every of Bournemouth’s stand-out gamers this season and Liverpool have been eager on him for a while.

Liverpool’s sporting director Richard Hughes initially signed him for the Cherries from AZ Alkmaar in 2023.

In the meantime, Florian Wirtz solely needs to affix Liverpool with talks over a possible club-record deal persevering with with Bayer Leverkusen.

Leverkusen desire a deal that values the participant at £120m. Wirtz is with the Germany squad getting ready for his or her Nations League semi-final towards Portugal in Munich.

Bayern Munich and Manchester Metropolis are additionally making an attempt to signal the 22-year-old, who was among the many Bundesliga’s most spectacular performers final season.

Wirtz, who has spent his total senior profession at Leverkusen, scored 10 targets and registered 12 assists in 25 begins as his aspect completed runners-up to Bayern Munich, a 12 months on from successful a league and cup double.

Carra: Liverpool want a brand new left-back

Sky Sports activities’ Jamie Carragher believes Liverpool have to signal a brand new left-back earlier than concentrating on a centre ahead.

“All through the season, I used to be nonetheless saying that Liverpool nonetheless want 5 or 6 gamers,” mentioned Carragher on The Overlap.

“I feel the left-back is available in and performs right away, Frimpong will combat with Conor Bradley, Wirtz will play when he involves the membership. However I nonetheless assume we want a centre ahead. I feel Liverpool will look to get their enterprise carried out fairly early.

“Liverpool want a left-back, Andy Robertson wants assistance on that aspect and Kostas Tsimikas will probably be moved on. I’ve at all times felt that attacking midfield and left-back are the 2 areas which have jumped out to me within the final 12 to 18 months.

“Whether or not Wirtz is available in and performs in Szoboszlai’s position or performs from the left, I do not know. However the subsequent one is centre ahead and I would not be shocked if as soon as Liverpool get these three [Frimpong, Wirtz, and the left-back] carried out, the subsequent one will probably be a centre ahead.

“Because the window goes on, Liverpool will simply see who they’ll promote and what they’ll do – they could herald one other midfield participant or a centre-back to again up, however they will simply assess what the state of affairs is.”

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