Liverpool confirmed the signing of Dominik Szoboszlai from RB Leipzig on Sunday after paying the Hungarian’s 70-million-euro (60 million pound, 76 million greenback) launch clause. The 22-year-old will additional bolster the Reds midfield choices after the arrival of Argentine World Cup winner Alexis Mac Allister final month. “The last three or four days went really long; it was not that easy. But at the end I’m here, I’m happy and I can’t wait to get started,” Szoboszlai advised Liverpool’s web site. “A really historic club, really good players, good coach, everything is good. For me it was perfect to make the next step in a club like this. The fans, the stadium, everything is really good.”

Liverpool had been available in the market to refresh their midfield after a fifth-place end within the Premier League final season noticed them miss out on Champions League qualification for the primary time in seven years.

Midfielders James Milner, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Naby Keita all left the membership when their contracts expired on the finish of final season.

Szoboszlai will inherit the quantity eight jersey vacated by Keita to comply with within the footsteps of certainly one of his childhood heroes Steven Gerrard.

“I have a tattoo from Steven Gerrard,” he added. “When I was a child, to be honest I didn’t watch that much football, but when it was Champions League, I watched and he was one of the biggest.”

Szoboszlai scored 20 objectives and offered 22 assists in 91 video games for Leipzig since becoming a member of in January 2021 as he helped them to win the German Cup and end within the prime 4 of the Bundesliga for the previous two seasons.

“It has been an intense and above all successful few years at RB Leipzig,” Szoboszlai stated in a press release launched by Leipzig.

“I have met lots of people on and off the pitch who have really helped me in my development. I matured in Leipzig and have been able to learn a lot, so I have a lot to thank the club for.”

Szoboszlai is the second Leipzig star to make an enormous cash transfer to the Premier League in current weeks following Christopher Nkunku’s arrival at Chelsea.

And there may very well be an excellent larger deal to return with Manchester City reportedly eager on a deal for Leipzig centre-back Josko Gvardiol that might make the Croatian the world’s costliest defender.

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