Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain: Liverpool agree £40m deal for Arsenal midfielder
Liverpool have agreed a £40m deal to sign Arsenal and England midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
The 24-year-old, who rejected a move to Chelsea on Tuesday after a fee had been agreed, will join Liverpool on a five-year contract worth £120,000 a week.
Oxlade-Chamberlain,
who is in the final year of his Arsenal contract, rejected a new deal
worth up to £180,000 a week to stay at the Emirates.
He has started each of Arsenal's four games so far this season.
The
midfielder is expected to have a medical before flying to Malta with
England on Thursday, before the summer transfer window closes at 23:00
BST.
Oxlade-Chamberlain has made 198 appearances for Arsenal since joining them from Southampton in August 2011, scoring 20 goals.
The
fee is the highest Liverpool have yet paid for a player - although it
will be surpassed by the £48m the Reds have agreed to pay for RB
Leipzig's Naby Keita next summer.
So far this summer, Liverpool
have signed winger Mohamed Salah from Roma for £34m, full-back Andrew
Robertson from Hull for £8m and striker Dominic Solanke after his
contract at Chelsea expired.
Liverpool have also been pursuing
Monaco's £75m-rated winger Thomas Lemar and Southampton centre-back
Virgil van Dijk, while the Reds' Brazil forward Philippe Coutinho
remains Barcelona's number one transfer target.
Belgium
striker Divock Origi could leave Anfield and join Bundesliga side
Wolfsburg on loan before the transfer window closes on Thursday, says
BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty.
The 22-year-old is
highly rated by Reds manager Jurgen Klopp but the imminent arrival of
Oxlade-Chamberlain from Arsenal means his chances in attack are likely
to be restricted this season.
Origi wants regular football
throughout Belgium's build-up to next summer's World Cup and Liverpool
will also be eager to see the talented young forward continue his
progress, so it is expected he will leave Anfield before the deadline.
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