AS Roma forward Mohamed Salah to undergo medical at Liverpool

AS Roma forward Mohamed Salah will undergo a medical with Liverpool on Tuesday after a £39 million transfer fee has been agreed with Roma.

According to reports from Egypt top media outlet KingFut; Jurgen Klopp’s side had launched an improved bid of €45m (£39.4m) for the 25-year-old in the wake of accepting that the Serie A club would not bring down their cost on the Egyptian.

KingFut claimed that the offer has been accepted by Roma after negotiations with the midfielder’s representative, Ramy Abbas, in London. Salah’s ticket to England has now been booked and the former Chelsea player will arrive for his medical session at Liverpool on June 20.

The European giant has been in talks with Roma since the start of June after their underlying £28m offer was refused. In spite of the need to sell a key player keeping in mind the end goal to meet Financial Fair Play rules, Roma were fixed that the midfielder would not be permitted to leave at a cut-cost charge.

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Chelsea Reportedly Making Massive Move For Roma Duo

Premier League leaders Chelsea are preparing to make a move for AS Roma stars Radja Nainggolan and Antonio Rudiger.

The Blues have reportedly arranged to offer €83 million for the duo as manager Antonio Conte trusts they can genuinely enhance the quality of the squad.

Chelsea have had a few fruitless endeavors to enroll Radja Nainggolan, yet reports from Italy assert AS Roma are presently prepared to offer.

Nonetheless, they are not very excited about letting Antonio Rudiger go, due to Kostas Manolas certainty to leave this summer.

Radja Nainggolan, 29, has been one of the club's star player as far back as he arrived from Cagliari, and he scored no less than 10 League goals this season.

Antonio Rudiger, 24, also performed well this season, making a total of 23 League appearances.

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Francesco Totti: Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard was my toughest ever English opponent

 

Francesco Totti has said that Steven Gerrard is the best English footballer he’s played against.

The Roma legend described Steven Gerrard as the toughest English player he has ever encountered.
The two players have met on several occasions in European competition when Gerrard’s beloved Liverpool faced the Serie A giants.
In those contests the pair, who until recently were both one-club men, struck up a mutual respect for one another and Totti is in no doubt who the best he’s come up against from England.

“Steven Gerrard. A champion and an example,” he simply told Marca, as reported by Football Italia.
A box-to-box midfielder with incredible footballing intelligence, Gerrard represented his boyhood club, whose academy he graduated from in 1998, on no fewer than 710 occasions.

He would manage 186 goals and guide them to a plethora of trophies including his most famous moment in Istanbul when Liverpool won their fifth European Cup.

Since hanging up his boots, last playing for Los Angeles Galaxy, he’s entered the world of coaching.
Gerrard was recently appointed as a youth coach at Liverpool with many Reds supporters hoping one day he could be sitting on the dugout managing their first team.

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