Kerkez's dad says Liverpool move 'basically' done

The begetter of Bournemouth defender Milos Kerkez has described his son's impending transportation to Liverpool arsenic "basically a done deal."

ESPN reported connected Sunday that Liverpool person agreed a woody for the Hungary planetary worthy successful the portion of €45 cardinal ($51.99m) and that Kerkez had agreed idiosyncratic presumption with the Premier League champions.

Liverpool are looking to bolster their options astatine left-back, having already signed Bayer Leverkusen's Jeremie Frimpong to supply contention connected the close flank.

Appearing connected the Super Indirektno podcast alongside his son, Kerkez's father, Sebastijan, said: "It's lone Liverpool for america and we're not going anyplace other and we won't speech to different clubs. Everything is done betwixt america [personal terms] we conscionable request to benignant retired immoderate details but it's fundamentally a done deal.

"[Liverpool sporting director] Richard Hughes brought america to Bournemouth, if helium said we spell to India, past we spell to India, everything is agreed, conscionable immoderate small things."

In summation to strengthening astatine full-back this summer, Liverpool past week agreed a deal to motion Bayer Leverkusen playmaker Florian Wirtz successful a woody that could emergence to £116m, sources told ESPN.

Liverpool saw 2 offers rejected by Leverkusen -- who had initially wanted £126m for Wirtz's transportation -- earlier accepting an archetypal £100m deal, positive bonuses of up to £16m.

Information from ESPN's Julien Laurens contributed to this report.