Thiago Alcantara is joining Liverpool after finishing his seven-year career as European champion Bayern Munich, according to Dailymail.
“That was Thiago’s great wish,” Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said Thursday in a video interview with German newspaper Bild. “It was his great wish, quite simply, to do something new before the end of his career.”
Only last week, Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp said that Thiago Alcantara was a “truly good player” when commenting on Liverpool’s reported interest in signing him. And now the Bayern chairman has confirmed a transfer.
Thiago Alcantara, 29, is Liverpool’s second sign of the transfer window. The club also brought Kostas Tsimikas from Olympiakos to the defense last month.
Liverpool is expected to pay 20 million pounds ($26 million) in advance, with a potential additional 5 million pounds ($6.5 million) later.
Last month, the Spain international won his seventh consecutive Bundesliga title with Bayern as well as the Champions League. His contract with the Munich club was due to expire at the end of the 2020-21 season.
