Liverpool have reached an agreement with Al Hilal for the sale of Darwin Nunez.
It is understood the Saudi Pro League club are set to pay a fixed fee of £46.2m (€53m) plus add-ons that could take the deal to £56.6m (€65m).
Sky in Italy are reporting that Al Hilal have accepted Nunez’s wage demands.
It is understood that Liverpool are yet to be informed that Nunez has given his greenlight to the move.
AC Milan were interested and made an approach, but were unlikely to ever match these figures.
Should Nunez leave Anfield he will do so having scored 40 goals in 143 appearances for the club since a 2022 move from Benfica, which initially cost the Reds £64m at the time.
Despite scoring 18 goals in Jurgen Klopp’s final season he managed only seven last term under Arne Slot, though did bag two vital stoppage-time goals to give Liverpool a 2-0 win at Brentford in January.
Should Liverpool sign Isak with Nunez set to leave?
Jamie Carragher says he wants Liverpool to sign Alexander Isak from Newcastle, but has questioned whether the club should be spending such big money.
Earlier in August, Liverpool made an initial bid of £110m plus add-ons, Sky Sports News reported. However, the total offer did not reach £120m, with the Magpies valuing the striker at £150m.
Liverpool have also signed Hugo Ekitike this summer, who can also play as a No 9, and Carragher says splashing out on the forward to have him potentially be a back-up ‘doesn’t sit right’ with him.
Speaking on The Overlap, he said: “It will be an amazing signing. But from a Liverpool fan point of view, I don’t want the club to spend £150m on Isak.
“I could probably imagine that he was Liverpool’s No 1 target but there’s something about Liverpool buying a striker [Ekitike] for £80m and he’s a back-up. There’s something about it that doesn’t sit right to me.
“I look at Isak, he’s obviously thrown his toys out of the pram once Arsenal and Liverpool signed a striker. From him and his agent’s point of view, did they not tell Newcastle months ago that they wanted to move on? It just seems a little bit messy.”
