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Thiago Alcantara will be unveiled on Friday, after Liverpool agreed to a £ 20 million deal for the Champions League winner.
The midfielder said goodbye to his Bayern Munich teammates in an emotional outing at the club’s training ground on Thursday morning, with his boss Hansi Flick congratulating the Reds for signing an “extraordinary” player.
Despite the Munich announcement, with Bayern president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge explaining that the player had “a great desire to do something new before the end of his career”, Reds officials refused to confirm his arrival. to England.
But it is understood that the Spanish international was due to arrive in Merseyside late Thursday night, to complete the second part of a medical evaluation and finalize the terms of the contract in a four-year agreement.
Flick said Liverpool have given a stroke of luck to a player who has contributed greatly to Bayern’s success.
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“I can only congratulate Liverpool because ‘Kloppo’ is getting a great player and above all a great person,” he said.
Crucially, the English club, after months of confrontation in which they refused to meet Bayern’s € 30 million sale price for a 29-year-old player who is in the final year of his contract, negotiated a structured agreement and a guaranteed lower rate.
They will pay £ 20 million, with an additional £ 5 million depending on bonuses related to success in the Champions League and Premier League, but only if Thiago plays a significant role.
There will also be more payouts depending on individual awards, such as the Ballon d’Or or Premier League Player of the Year.
Most importantly for the Liverpool property, which has urged transfer market caution in the uncertain financial landscape of a soccer economy ruined by the Coronavirus crisis, they will pay in installments over the course of the four-year deal. .
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That means an initial outlay this year that is estimated to be around £ 5 million, with the remainder being paid out in annual increments depending on bonus targets.
Thiago has already agreed, in principle, to his four-year contract, which will place him behind Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah as one of Anfield’s highest-paid players.
Liverpool expects it to complete the final stages of the medical process on Friday with its own doctors, and could then unveil it before the weekend.
That would rule him out of being part of Jurgen Klopp’s squad to face Chelsea on Sunday, but oddly enough, he might have a chance to get fit in the EFL Cup visit to humble Lincoln next Thursday.
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