Liverpool 's typically decisive transfer business has seen them gazump Manchester United and all but win the race for PSV Eindhoven star Cody Gakpo.
In a move not unlike how the Reds pipped Tottenham Hotspur to the signing of Luis Diaz in January of this year, Jurgen Klopp and Co have trumped United's efforts and are close signing the sought-after Dutch forward. Gakpo, 23, is now en route to Merseyside and set to complete a medical before officially becoming a Liverpool player.
The deal is understood to cost a total of €51million (£45m) and while United had been negotiating around that figure, Anfield chiefs were willing to pay more of the fee up front in a lump sum worth £37m, an offer which appealed to PSV. When officials at Old Trafford - who were keen on an alternative payment structure - learned of Liverpool's progress, they decided not to make a counter-offer and admit defeat.
