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Liverpool have agreed to a club-record deal to sign Southampton defender Virgil van Dijk.

The club posted a picture of the Netherlands defender on their website holding a Liverpool jersey and saying that he will join the team when the transfer window reopens Monday.

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Liverpool Football Club can confirm they have reached an agreement with Southampton for the transfer of Virgil van Dijk.

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A source close to Liverpool said the fee for the deal was £75 million, which would make Van Dijk the most expensive transfer in club history and also constitute a record fee for a defender. Van Dijk will wear the No. 4 shirt upon his arrival at Anfield.

Southampton also confirmed the deal, announcing: "Southampton have agreed a fee that will set a new world-record for a defender. The club wishes Virgil well in his future when the deal is completed on January 1st 2018.''

Van Dijk wrote on Instagram: "Delighted and honoured to have agreed to become a Liverpool FC player! Today is a proud day for me and my family as I join one of the biggest clubs in world football!."

Van Dijk's move from Southampton to Liverpool is the sixth transfer between the clubs in the last three and a half years, with other players trading St Mary's for Anfield including Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana, Dejan Lovren, Nathaniel Clyne and Sadio Mane.

Liverpool had held a long-standing interest in the Netherlands defender and wanted to sign him in the summer until they were forced to publicly apologise to Southampton amid tapping-up allegations.

Speculation had been rife regarding Van Dijk's future after he was absent from the matchday squad for Southampton's past two games.

Leon Goretzka podpisze kontrakt z Bayernem. Do Monachium przeniesie się przed nowym sezonem - twierdzi "Sport Bild".

22-letni pomocnik jest jednym z najciekawszych piłkarzy młodego pokolenia w Niemczech. Uwagę na jego umiejętności zwróciły największe europejskie firmy: Real, Barcelona, Manchester United, czy Liverpool. Jednym z powodów dużego zainteresowania Goretzką była też jego sytuacja kontraktowa. Umowa piłkarza z Schalke wygaśnie po zakończeniu sezonu, więc wiele klubów liczyło, że sprowadzi wartościowego piłkarza na zasadzie wolnego transferu.

Udało się to Bayernowi. Według dziennikarzy magazynu "SportBild", którzy uchodzą za dobrze poinformowanych w sprawach klubu z Monachium, mistrzowie Niemiec na początku nowego roku ogłoszą podpisanie kontraktu z Goretzką. Do nowej drużyny piłkarz dołączy dopiero przed rozpoczęciem kolejnych rozgrywek.

W tym sezonie Goretzka wystąpił w dwunastu meczach Schalke. Strzelił w nich cztery gole. Na swoim koncie zapisał też jedną asystę. Portal Transfermarkt.de wycenia go na 40 mln euro.

Chelsea have announced the signing of Ross Barkley from Everton in a deal understood to be worth £15m. The midfielder described the move as “unbelievable” and said one of his primary targets was to score more goals.

Chelsea went back for Barkley after a deadline-day move collapsed last summer. The clubs agreed a £35m fee and Barkley personal terms with the Premier League champions, only for the player to request more time to consider the deal as he recovered from a serious hamstring injury.

That delay has cost Barkley’s boyhood club £20m in transfer revenue, although Everton risked losing the England international for nothing in the summer and reluctantly accepted a cut-price move.

Barkley is out of contract at the end of the season and Everton’s manager, Sam Allardyce, admitted on Thursday the club was resigned to losing its homegrown talent, who has rejected offers to extend his stay.

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The 24-year-old, who has signed a five-and-a-half-year deal, told Chelsea’s website: “I’m overwhelmed, I’m looking forward to it and I’m really excited to get started. To be given a fresh start at a new club like Chelsea, it’s unbelievable for me. I’m looking forward to continuing where I left off at the end of last season and hoping to improve and add more goals to my game.”


Antonio Conte explained on Friday why he wanted to bring Barkley to Chelsea. “We are talking about an English player, a young player,” the manager said. “He has good prospects for Chelsea. I think the club decided for this investment also for his contract. I think this is a good opportunity for the club to buy this player. For sure he is a good prospect for Chelsea.”

Conte cautioned against expecting Barkley, who had not played a competitive match since May, to make an immediate impact. “Don’t forget he had a bad injury, he had surgery,” he said. “This player has not played in seven months … We must have great patience. We have to hope to recover him very quickly, to try to help us for the rest of the season.”

Barkley has been at Everton since he was 11 years old, having been spotted by the club’s late and prolific former scout Sid Benson, and made 150 Premier League appearances.

His future at Goodison was thrown into doubt during Ronald Koeman’s reign as Everton manager, with the Dutch coach regularly criticising the midfielder in public and the player then stalling over a contract extension.

Koeman’s immediate replacement, David Unsworth, and permanent successor, Allardyce, both hoped a change in management would encourage Barkley to recommit to Everton but that has not materialised. The England midfielder has not featured this season because of his recovery from hamstring surgery but returned to first-team training over the festive period.

Jak poinformowała oficjalnie FC Barcelona, klub porozumiał się z Liverpoolem w sprawie transferu Philippe Coutinho. Brazylijczyk zwiąże się z Barçą na 5,5 roku. Klauzula odstępnego za piłkarza wyniesie 400 milionów euro.

Brazylijczyk przyleci dziś wieczorem do Barcelony, a jutro z trybun obejrzy mecz zespołu Ernesto Valverde z Levante. Prezentacja Coutinho odbędzie się prawdopodobnie w poniedziałek około południa. Brazylijczyk będzie do dyspozycji trenera na mecz z Celtą Vigo lub na spotkanie z Realem Sociedad.

Brytyjski Guardian podaje szczegóły umowy między klubami. Podstawową ceną, jaką zapłaci Barcelona, jest 120 mln euro i 40 mln € zmiennych. Prawie połowa z tych 40 milionów zostanie wypłacona po rozegraniu przez Coutinho stu meczów w barwach Barcelony, pięć milionów euro za zakwalifikowanie się do Ligi Mistrzów w ciągu najbliższych dwóch sezonów i kolejne pięć milionów za triumf w tych rozgrywkach. Piłkarz będzie zarabiać ok. 14 milionów euro za sezon.