Dejan Lovren’s stay at Anfield appears to be drawing to a close after reports emerged that Liverpool had agreed a deal with Zenit St.Petersburg for the defender’s transfer. The Reds will reportedly receive somewhere around £11m for the Croatian international, who has been at Anfield since 2014 after joining them from Southampton.
Lovren is currently contracted to Liverpool till the end of the 20/21 season, but the deal had a potential year’s extension built into it. The 31-year-old, a World Cup finalist with Croatia two years ago, has fallen down the pecking order at Anfield, with Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Joel Matip all preferred to the veteran centre back.
Lovren made a total of 15 appearances across all competitions for the Reds in the 2019/20 campaign, and his last league appearance came from the bench in the Merseyside derby against Everton last month.
The centre-back had interest from the likes of Roma and AC Milan last season, but a deal did not materialise, and he remained at Anfield.
Zenit are the reigning Russian league champions and have often recruited from the Premier League- their current captain is veteran defender Branislav Ivanovic, whom they signed from Chelsea back in 2017.
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