Wednesday, 4th June, 2014
Alberto Moreno's switch to Liverpool is edging closer, with the Reds having placed a five-year contract on the table for the Sevilla left-back.
Liverpool are poised to pay €22m to sign Moreno, but there is still work to do over the structure of payments to be made to Sevilla, with a deal not yet signed off by Los Rojiblancos president Jose Castro.
Even so, according to ABC Sevilla, Moreno has been offered a five-year contract by Liverpool, which contains a number of bonus payments dependent upon the club's performance over the duration of the agreement.
Moreno, who has taken his time to consider the proposal, has also been urged to head to Liverpool by Pepe Reina, the Spanish goalkeeper who is under contract to the Reds but spent this season on loan in Italy with Napoli.
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The left-back has interested Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal, with the latter even enquiring about his status just a few weeks ago.
But it is Liverpool who have put in the hard yards over Moreno, the club's scout in Spain and Portugal having complied reams of reports on the 21-year-old, not just on the pitch assessments, but off it too, judging whether his character is a good fit at Anfield.
And it appears the Reds are moving steadily closer to sealing the deal for Moreno, who was included in Vicente del Bosque's initial World Cup squad, but did not make the final 23-man cut.
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