Curtis Jones set to leave Liverpool as Inter submit £30m offer for midfielder
Liverpool is expected to sell midfielder Curtis Jones to Inter Milan for approximately £30 million. The transfer follows a failed bid earlier this summer and the player's desire for more consistent first-team opportunities.
Why it matters
This move highlights the financial pressures on Premier League clubs to sell homegrown talent to avoid losing them on free transfers, while impacting Liverpool's squad depth.
Liverpool are likely to sanction Curtis Jones’s departure from Anfield. Liverpool are likely to sanction Curtis Jones’s departure from Anfield. Liverpool Curtis Jones set to leave Liverpool as Inter submit £30m offer for midfielder Homegrown star has been longstanding target for Italians
Jones in the final year of his contract at Anfield
Prefer the Guardian on Google Inter have submitted an offer of €30m rising to €35m (£30m) for Curtis Jones, with the Liverpool midfielder expected to leave his boyhood club after a 16-year association. Jones has been a target for Inter since January and was the subject of a failed €25m bid from them in June.
Liverpool valued their homegrown midfielder closer to €40m but, with Jones in the final year of his contract and no sign of an agreement over an extension, that figure is unlikely to be reached.
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