Liverpool are edging nearer to finishing a blockbuster deal for Darwin Nunez - with focus rapidly shifting to Calvin Ramsay.
The 22-year-old is getting ready to finishing a deal value a whopping £64m with about £21m in add-ons to take him from Benfica to Anfield.
The eye of the Champions League finalists has firmly been on the Nunez deal, which seems to have held up the ultimate settlement.
However the Aberdeen prospect is subsequent on the Premier League giants' agenda.
The 18-year-old is getting ready to a dream transfer to work underneath Jurgen Klopp, and experiences counsel the Scotland youth cap can be thrown straight into the first-team image.
A back-up right-back has been excessive on the German's want record and Ramsay seems set to turn out to be the understudy to Trent Alexander-Arnold subsequent time period.
That's, if the ultimate switch payment may be rubber stamped.
The gamers seems eager to go along with Liverpool set to succeed in an settlement with Ramsay.
Nevertheless, Aberdeen have taken a hardline stance on their valuation as they demand a bumper payment to inexperienced mild the transfer south.
After an preliminary proposal of £4million with a possible £2million extra in add-ons, the Premiership facet are standing agency on a price ticket of £8million together with add-ons, experiences the Press & Journal.
Dons' chairman Dave Cormack has beforehand acknowledged he has no intention of letting gamers go on a budget: "We is not going to bend over backwards and be taken without any consideration so far as promoting gamers are involved.
“That’s like a crimson rag to a bull to me. Folks not desirous to pay full and truthful worth for the gamers."
There's little doubt that Nathan Patterson 's £12million transfer to Merseyside rivals Everton from Rangers will come up, with Ramsay taking part in considerably extra video games final time period.
So now the deal for Nunez is about to cross the road, the Anfield negotiators should convey their A-game as they flip their consideration to bringing Ramsay to Liverpool.