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Salah to go undergo Thursday medical at Liverpool after £34.5m fee agreed with Roma

Mo Salah will play FOR Liverpool not against them
Mo Salah will play FOR Liverpool not against them

Roma winger Mohamed Salah is to undergo a medical at Liverpool on Thursday after the clubs agreed a £34.5m fee on Wednesday night.

Yahoo Sport understands negotiations have been finalised but, somewhat bizarrely, it is not yet known whether the transfer will break the club-record £35m the Reds paid Newcastle for striker Andy Carroll in January 2011.

That will depend on the exchange rate at the time the deal is formally concluded: 39m euros currently equates to about £34.5m.

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Liverpool had an initial offer of £28m for the 25-year-old rejected earlier this month, but they have now come to a settlement having continued negotiations with the Serie A club.

The Premier League outfit have landed Salah at the second attempt as three years ago they were outbid by Chelsea, with the winger moving to Stamford Bridge for £11million from Basle.

That move did not work out for him and, after loan spells at Fiorentina and Roma, he joined the latter for £13million last summer.

The pacy attacker scored 15 Serie A goals last season – making it 29 league goals in two years – and provided 11 assists as Roma finished second, behind Juventus.