Minamino’s first game for Liverpool could be the FA Cup third round tie against Everton David Geieregger/Getty ImagesLiverpool have completed the signing of the Japan attacker Takumi Minamino from Red Bull Salzburg for £7.5 million. The 24-year-old has agreed a four-and-a-half-year contract and will join Jürgen Klopp’s squad when the transfer window opens on January 1. Minamino arrived on Merseyside yesterday while Liverpool’s first-team squad were in Qatar for the semi-final of the Club World Cup and successfully completed a medical. Minamino said: “It has been a dream, my dream to become a Liverpool player. I think this is the top-class league in the world; I was thinking if my career as a footballer progressed smoothly, someday I would be able…

Source: The Times December 19, 2019 09:56 UTC