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Liverpool sealed the signing of the Portuguese striker Diogo Jota de Wolves for a total of £ 41 million on Saturday.
Jota has signed a “long-term” contract with the Premier League champions, which is believed to be a five-year contract.
The 23-year-old joins Liverpool just 24 hours after he signed Bayern Munich midfielder Thiago Alcántara for £ 20m.
Liverpool also signed Greek left-back Kostas Tsimikas from Olympiakos earlier in the transfer window.
Jota will provide attack depth for Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, competing with Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino for playing time in the team’s ample positions on the three-man front line.
“It’s a really exciting time for me and my family,” Jota told the Liverpool website.
“All my journey since I was a kid and now, joining a club like Liverpool, the world champion, is just amazing. I just want to start.
“They are world-class players. Every game, they try to win. They score a lot of goals and work together.
“I want to be one more piece to unite the three (forwards).”
Jota claimed that the move to Anfield was too good an opportunity to turn down.
“When you look at the Premier League, you always see Liverpool as one of the biggest teams in the country, so it’s impossible to say no,” he said.
“So we just want to come (to the club), do our best and hopefully be able to become a good fit for Liverpool in the future.”
Jota has scored 16 goals in his last 67 Premier League appearances and Klopp believes he is not yet the final product.
“He is a player who gives us so many options to use him. He is 23 years old, he is still far from being a kind of finished article, with a lot of potential. He has the speed, he can combine, he can defend, he can press. Klopp said.
“It makes him more unpredictable and gives us real options for different systems because he can play practically all three positions up front in a 4-3-3, if we play with four midfielders, he can play both wings.
“He has some natural things that we have in our game, like this desire, greed and direction.”
“He is part of this incredible Portuguese generation at the moment, where they really have a lot of obviously quite skilled players.
“He knows it’s a step for him and he can give us things that we don’t have, that’s why it’s great. The room to improve is not what I like the most, but it’s there.”
Former Atlético de Madrid forward Jota joined the Wolves on loan in their 2017-18 championship-winning campaign before making a permanent trade in 2018.
While Jota’s departure is a blow for the Wolves, they can look forward to the arrival of 18-year-old Dutch defender Ki-Jana Hoever from Liverpool as part of the deal with Jota.
“Ki will join us. He is a young player, a player who I think really has potential, he has talent. And it is up to us to get the best of him,” said Nuno.
