Federico Chiesa is on the verge of completing a move to Liverpool, but it’s been a worse day for Darwin Nunez!
Liverpool on the verge of Chiesa signing
Rejoice – Liverpool are finally bringing in a signing for this season!
Federico Chiesa is now all but a Reds player, with various reports stating that personal terms have been agreed and a medical will now take place.
Incredibly, the Italian is expected to cost an initial £10.9 million – almost half of the £20 million they paid for Stewart Downing back in 2011!
It’s a brilliant piece of opportunistic business from Richard Hughes. This is some attack that Liverpool have now!
Today’s Liverpool FC News
- Darwin Nunez has been handed a five-match international ban for fighting fans after a Copa America clash between Uruguay and Colombia. He has also been fined $20,000!
- Liverpool pair Owen Beck and Lewis Koumas have been named in Craig Bellamy’s first Wales squad. The future looks bright for the young duo!
- Meanwhile, Ben Doak has been called up by Scotland to face Poland and Portugal next month, despite his current Liverpool absence. Calvin Ramsay is in their U21s squad.
- Liverpool have rejected Bayer Leverkusen’s bid to take Tyler Morton on loan, per the Telegraph‘s Chris Bascombe.
- Stefan Bajcetic is however close to joining Red Bull Salzburg for the season, having undergone his medical on Wednesday.
More from This Is Anfield
- “A 6’6″ cat” – LaLiga expert Ruairidh Barlow has spoken to This Is Anfield about why Giorgi Mamardashvili is a bargain signing for Liverpool at £29 million
- Liverpool U18s lost an eight-goal thriller to Arsenal as tempers flared at the AXA Training Centre, with the Gunners prevailing 5-3!
- Stoke fans are already “in love” with Liverpool loanee Koumas, following an impressive start on loan at the Championship club
Elsewhere in the football world today
- Man United have reportedly rejected the chance to sign Chelsea left-back Ben Chilwell, but a move for Raheem Sterling is still possible (Independent)
- Eddie Nketiah is set to undergo a medical at Crystal Palace, ahead of a potential £30 million move from Arsenal. The Gunners have done well out of that deal! (Sky Sports)
- Nacional defender Juan Izquierdo has tragically died after collapsing on the pitch during a Copa Libertadores match earlier this month. Rest in peace.
Liverpool FC: On this day
On this day in 1994, Robbie Fowler scored the fastest-ever Premier League hat-trick at the time, coming in at four minutes and 33 seconds in a 3-0 win over Arsenal.
Exactly five years later, God also found the net against the Gunners with a thunderous strike at Anfield in a 2-0 victory.
In fact, it is Liverpool legend Sadio Mane who now holds the record for the quickest Premier League hat-trick, netting a treble in just two minutes and 56 seconds for Southampton against Aston Villa in 2015.
That’s surely not going to be beaten!?
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