{"id":15620,"date":"2025-06-26T19:07:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=610307"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:37:49","slug":"official-milos-kerkez-signs-in-as-new-liverpool-player-for-e40-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/official-milos-kerkez-signs-in-as-new-liverpool-player-for-e40-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Milos Kerkez signs in as new Liverpool player for \u20ac40 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milos Kerkez has officially signed for Liverpool FC for \u20ac40 million from Bournemouth and the deal has been announced. Liverpool wanted a new left-back in the summer transfer window and they\u2019ve got it finally.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool have officially bolstered their defensive line by signing 21\u2011year\u2011old Hungarian left-back Milos Kerkez from Bournemouth for approximately \u00a340\u202fmillion (about \u20ac47\u202fmillion) on a five\u2011year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Kerkez emerged as one of the Premier League\u2019s most dynamic full-backs last season \u2013 he started all 38 league games for Bournemouth, contributing 2 goals and 6 assists. Known for his electrifying underlapping and overlapping runs, he ranked among the top full-backs for progressive carries, crosses, and sprints.<\/p>\n<p>This signing marks Liverpool\u2019s third major addition of the summer, following right-back Jeremie Frimpong and midfield maestro Florian Wirtz, pushing their total spending to around \u00a3170\u202fmillion\u2013\u00a3200\u202fmillion.<\/p>\n<p>Kerkez arrives knowing he\u2019ll push Andy Robertson (and possibly Kostas Tsimikas) for the starting berth, stirring speculation around Robertson\u2019s future at the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milos Kerkez has officially signed for Liverpool FC for \u20ac40 million from Bournemouth and the deal has been announced. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":36747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1976,3918,3796,3822,219,3823],"class_list":["post-15620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-bournemouth","tag-english-premier-league","tag-football","tag-left-back","tag-liverpool","tag-milos-kerkez"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}