Alisson: Liverpool make offer to sign Roma goalkeeper
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Liverpool have made an offer to sign Roma's Alisson for a reported £62m, a world record fee for a goalkeeper.
Roma are considering the bid but no deal has been agreed and the Italian side are said to want £66m.
Alisson has recently returned from the World Cup in Russia where he appeared for Brazil.
The 25-year-old has been at Roma for two years, and played 37 Serie A games last season, after starting his career at Brazilian side Internacional.
Liverpool's bid, which is 70m euros, would overtake the current record for a keeper - 53m euros paid by Juventus to Parma for Gianluigi Buffon in 2001.
The Premier League record for a keeper is the 40m euros Manchester City paid Benfica for Ederson in June 2017.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was forced to defend goalkeeper Loris Karius last week after another mistake - this time in a pre-season friendly against Tranmere.
The 25-year-old German spilled a free-kick that allowed the hosts to score in Liverpool's 3-2 win at Prenton Park.
Karius was at fault for two goals in Liverpool's 3-1 defeat by Real Madrid in the Champions League final, but it was later found that he had concussion.
Alisson played all five games, keeping three clean sheets, as Brazil were knocked out at the quarter-final stage of the World Cup by Belgium.
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Roma holding out for 62m
Every game next season there would be thousands of fans jeering whenever the ball goes near him, waiting for a mistake, unsettling him further.
He needs to go out on loan somewhere out of the spotlight and rebuild his career.
"Not fit to lace Edersons boots."
Yet keeps Ederson out of the Brazil team. Go figure eh?
The market has lost the plot nowadays, Madrid wanting 80 million for their squad player cast offs, West Ham spending over 40 million on a player, Coutinho the best part of 150 mill etc...
You can’t argue with the obvious logic in this bid. It makes total sense.
Haha are you for real? You have a name connected to Everton and you accuse others of wasting money?
Priceless is one word for you..... stupid is another
Liverpool building slowly but surely and still have a net spend which is a fraction of Jose at Utd.
This season Klopp will embarrass Mourinho on so many levels and deep down, judging by the comments on here from worried Mancs, they know it :)
Enjoy Jose's extended contract, I know we will ;)