{"id":551,"date":"2025-06-27T10:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=551"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:16:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:16:53","slug":"milos-kerkez-transfer-liverpool-complete-40m-deal-for-bournemouth-left-back-with-summer-spending-to-pass-200m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"Milos Kerkez transfer: Liverpool complete \u00a340m deal for Bournemouth left-back with summer spending to pass \u00a3200m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milos Kerkez has joined Liverpool from Bournemouth for \u00a340m; the 21-year-old is understood to have signed a five-year deal; the Hungary left-back scored two goals and added six assists in 38 league appearances for Cherries last season; Liverpool&#8217;s summer spending to pass \u00a3200m<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/25\/06\/768x432\/skysports-milos-kerkez-liverpool_6951114.jpg?20250626120619\" alt=\"Milos Kerkez poses for a photograph after signing a contract with Liverpool\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old defender, who is understood to have signed a five-year deal at Anfield, becomes head coach Arne Slot&#8217;s latest signing of the window, with Liverpool having already brought in Jeremy Frimpong for \u00a0\u00a329.5m from Bayer Leverkusen and his club-mate Florian Wirtz for what could become a British-record \u00a3116m move.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool also agreed a \u00a329m deal last August for goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili, who will officially join the club from Valencia on July 1, taking the Reds&#8217; spending in the summer transfer window to over \u00a3200m.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/GuXWFbmWUAAuS6e?format=jpg&amp;name=medium\" width=\"362\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a privilege to come to play for one of the biggest clubs in the world, [the] biggest club in England.<br \/>\n-Milos Kerkez<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really happy,&#8221; he told Liverpool&#8217;s website. &#8220;It&#8217;s a real honor for me, a privilege to come to play for one of the biggest clubs in the world, [the] biggest club in England. I&#8217;m just really, really happy and excited.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After this, I&#8217;ll go home and in my hometown enjoy a few days, and then I can&#8217;t really wait to come back and put the training kit on and start to train and prepare for the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to give everything &#8211; absolutely everything &#8211; to win trophies with the club and to hopefully score some goals at Anfield. I can&#8217;t wait to hear the roar. And see you soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kerkez was one of Bournemouth&#8217;s standout players last season, scoring two goals and adding six assists in 38 Premier League appearances, with Liverpool having been keen on him for some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milos Kerkez has joined Liverpool from Bournemouth for \u00a340m; the 21-year-old is understood to have signed a five-year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}