Liverpool have granted permission for goalkeeper Danny Ward to hold talks with Leicester City over a £12million transfer, according to the Sun.
The newspaper claim the Wales international, 25, will be allowed to speak to the Foxes once Alisson completes his world-record keeper move from Roma.
The Sun report Jurgen Klopp is to allow Ward to leave in what would be an £11million-plus profit for Liverpool, who signed him from Wrexham in 2012 for what the Echo report was an initial fee of around £100,000.
Good move for Liverpool?
Yes. Ward is a highly rated keeper, but he has only ever been on the fringes of the Liverpool side despite a series of successful loan moves, most notably for promotion-winning Huddersfield in 2016-17. With a £67million deal for Alisson close to being finalised following other expensive deals this summer for Fabinho and Naby Keita – with the Nabil Fekir transfer also not totally dead in the water – Liverpool need to make ends meet and offloading Ward is one way of doing so. An £11million-plus profit on a player who has only made three senior appearances for the club is very good business, a welcome and consistent trend under owners Fenway Sports Group in recent years.
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Likely to happen?
This not yet a done deal, but the £12million fee has been agreed, and it is now close. Assuming personal terms can be agreed, expect an announcement in the coming days that Ward is joining Leicester as the keeper merry-go-round gets into full swing.
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