Liverpool is ready to make another signature this summer, while Giovanni Leoni was about to go on Thursday morning to board a private jet at Parma Airport.
Leoni, 18, was seen that luggage wheels before he took a plane intended for Liverpool, where he is ready to complete a medical that would run closer to a movement.
A video of him that was seen was uploaded to X, formerly Twitter, by the Italian football journalist Gianluca di Marzio prior to the player's flight.
Liverpool is the completion of the agreement on a deal of £ 26 million for the highly valued young person and will pay further add-ons for the 18-year-old about versions plus a sale percentage.
Daily Mail Sport reported on Tuesday that the Premier League champions had performed their interest in the defender.
The Italy Under-19 star has only played 17 times in the Serie A, but the Reds transfer department can be found much of Leoni and is ready to strive to imagine it to sign it.
Liverpool's interest in Leoni, a 6ft 5 central defender, comes after the Reds previously chased Lenny Yoro, Jorrel Hato and Dean Huijsen while looking for a long -term successor to Captain Virgil van Dijk.
Sampdoria, who had activated an option of £ 1.3 million only a few months earlier to have a Padova loan permanently moved.
The teenager had played under former Italy -international Andrea Pirlo in Sampdoria, during his Stint who was in charge of the B -side series.
Pirlo had rejected concern about the defender with the first team at a young age and supported him to become a star of the future.
“If anyone had doubts about starting him from the first minute, I didn't have one,” Pirlo said in March 2024.
“I see him in training every day. He played like an adult young person, he becomes a strong football player. '
The expenditure of the Reds will now pass £ 300 million – £ 321 million in total – with Florian Wirtz who arrives for £ 116 million from Bayer Leverkusen, Hugo Ekitike costs £ 79 million and Goalden from Jeremine Frimpong, Milos Kerkez and Giorgi Mhamardashvili too
Liverpool has been looking for a center back, with Van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate the only fit senior centerbacks on their books while Joe Gomez is injured.
Liverpool is now direct contact with Crystal Palace about a movement for their skipper Guehi in a separate deal.
Daily Mail Sport reported in June how Guehi was interesting, but the clubs were too far apart in their ratings.
Palace had wanted £ 45 million for the English international, but with a year to his contract, a deal could possibly be closed for £ 35 million.
Guehi would probably prove a smart addition by offering extra competition for Van Dijk, with the Liverpool Captain Now 34.
At the age of 25, Guehi would turn out to be a long-term solution for the Reds, with the centerback also added leadership that offered the Eagles last season.