Liverpool are on the verge of losing out on Julian Brandt to Bayern Munich.
Jurgen Klopp identified the Bayer Leverkusen playmaker as the Reds’ primary transfer targets this summer but faced opposition from the Bundesliga champions.
And reports in Germany suggest that Bayern are now set to snare Liverpool.
Bild claim that a deal in the region of £25 million is set to be agreed to take Brandt to the Allianz Arena although a time frame for the move remains unclear.
The 20-year-old will be available for a cut-price fee of €12.5 million next summer, when he enters the final 12 months of his current deal at the BayArena.
Earlier this week Klopp was dealt a fresh transfer blow as Mahmoud Dahoud agreed to join his former club Borussia Dortmund in a £10.3m transfer.