Chelsea have agreed a offer worthy of £58million with Southampton for Romeo Lavia, talkSPORT understands.
The teenager appeared set to join Liverpool immediately after a £60m offer among them and Saints was agreed, but Lavia has opted to join Chelsea alternatively.
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talkSPORT documented on Sunday how the Reds were envisioned to match Chelsea’s £55m supply to indication the 19-yr-old.
But the Merseyside giants then tabled a greater bid than their Premier League rivals as Jurgen Klopp desperately looks to deliver in an additional midfielder.
Southampton and Liverpool reached an settlement above Lavia right after the Championship club knocked again three provides from the Anfield outfit.
Their former provide of £45m was turned down before this thirty day period, which led to Jamie Carragher to tell them to walk absent from their ’embarrassing’ pursuit of the participant.
But irrespective of a charge remaining agreed with the Saints, Lavia had not still agreed personalized terms with Liverpool and is now heading to Chelsea.
It is a incredibly equivalent problem Liverpool encountered when they experienced a British-report £111m proposal accepted by Brighton for Moises Caicedo.
Caicedo ultimately snubbed a switch to Liverpool as he now closes in on signing up for the Blues.
Now, Lavia has selected to enjoy for Mauricio Pochettino in excess of Jurgen Klopp.
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Southampton experienced been keeping out for £50m for the teenager, but they are now set to pocket additional than what they hoped for many thanks to the bidding war.
Lavia only produced the transfer to St Mary’s from Manchester City past summer for £14m, where he was one of their only dazzling sparks in what was an or else disastrous campaign.
The Athletic studies that City will obtain 20 for every cent of the gain for the sale of Lavia to Chelsea as a consequence of the offer-on clause inserted into the deal that took the Belgium global to the south coast.
He appeared in 35 video games in all competitions very last term, chipping in with a purpose and an assist.
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