It confirms one of the 'bombazos' in the previous of the start of the market of signings of winter: Cody Gakpo has new team, and is not the Manchester United with which had it all 'smart' until does some days. The Liverpool burst into in the career by the signing of the Dutch footballer and completed his traspaso in record time in a historical operation for the PSV.
"PSV And Liverpool FC have arrived to an agreement for the transfer of Cody Gakpo. The attacker of 23 years will travel immediately to England, where will make transact them necessary to complete this movement. Both clubs will avoid to do announcements on the economic agreement of this traspaso", has been the communiqué with which the Dutch club has announced the traspaso of the 'jewel' of 23 years.
Likewise, they have confirmed that "the administration of the PSV completed the negotiations this Monday and gave permission to Gakpo to travel to England". From the team trained by Ruud go Nistelrooy have not wanted to offer the official figures of the operation and, in fact, the general director Marcel Brands has commented in the official means of the club that, although they reserved the mount, "is a record transfer for the PSV".
However, already it knows the figure that will have to pay the Liverpool by Gakpo. Seran 42 million euros more other 14 'kilos' in variables, for a total of €54m. It does not have desvelado the length of the agreement, but according to the information of the skilled journalist in the market of signings Fabrizio Romano, will be "of long length".
Explosion in the World-wide
Although Gakpo already had left signals that this called to be one of the 'cracks' of the future of the European football, in the World-wide of Qatar finish to consolidate his candidature. It was key so that the selection of Low Countries classified to the quarter-finals of the tournament, where fell deleted in hands of Argentina. The extreme sign three goals. His participation did not happen unobserved for any team 'big' and thus they did not stop the offers by the, to the point in which convirtio in the traspaso but expensive of the history of the PSV, surpassing the sale of the 'Chucky' Lozano to the Napoli in 2019, by €45m.