Liverpool have signed Jeremie Frimpong from Bayer Leverkusen, the Premier League champions confirmed on Friday.
Frimpong, a Netherlands worldwide who has emerged as one of many world’s most enjoyable full-backs, had a clause in his contract that allowed him to go away for €35 million ($39.2m), a supply advised ESPN.
The transfer is ready to be accomplished after the switch window opens on June 1, with the payment to be paid in three separate annual instalments.
The deal was introduced hours after Trent Alexander-Arnold’s early exit to Actual Madrid was confirmed.
Alexander-Arnold, whose contract was expiring on the finish of June, is becoming a member of the LaLiga aspect for the Membership World Cup, with a supply telling ESPN a €10m ($11.3m) deal was agreed.
Whereas Frimpong has extensively been considered externally as a substitute for the departing Alexander-Arnold, a supply advised ESPN that Slot views the participant as a flexible choice on the appropriate flank, with the participant able to deputising for Mohamed Salah when he participates within the African Cup of Nations which can happen in Morocco this winter.
“It went fairly straightforward,” Frimpong stated of the talks. “Liverpool got here and stated they’d curiosity, and clearly for me it was a no brainer.
“For me, it was like, ‘No matter you guys do, simply get this completed,’ [speaking to] my brokers: ‘Simply get this completed.’
“Liverpool followers, I will give my all, my power, my work-rate and hopefully we will win collectively, we have fun collectively, get all the pieces collectively.
“I am simply excited to be right here. Thanks guys for accepting me and I will not allow you to guys down and I will provide the power that you just guys need.”
Frimpong has lengthy been linked with a transfer to the Premier League, and Liverpool have been monitoring the 24-year-old for greater than a decade. The membership even made an try and recruit him to their academy earlier than he joined Manchester Metropolis.
Frimpong was a youth participant at Manchester Metropolis for 9 years earlier than becoming a member of Celtic after which Leverkusen, which means he qualifies as a home-grown participant in England.
He additionally has Liverpool ties, via Dutch coach Arne Slot and worldwide teammates Ryan Gravenberch, Cody Gakpo and Virgil van Dijk.
Frimpong was a key a part of essentially the most profitable interval in Leverkusen’s historical past, starring within the membership’s unbeaten march to a maiden Bundesliga title and DFB-Pokal final yr. The membership additionally reached the ultimate of the Europa League, the place they misplaced to Atalanta.
This season, Leverkusen completed in second place, nicely behind champions Bayern Munich. Xabi Alonso has departed to hitch Actual Madrid, and star gamers akin to Frimpong may additionally depart.
Info from ESPN’s Beth Lindop was used on this report.
