Liverpool have reached an agreement with Bournemouth to sign Milos Kerkez in a deal worth around £40million ($54m).
A medical is expected to take place next week ahead of the left-back signing a five-year contract at Anfield, with the deal now moving to the paperwork stage following club-to-club agreement.
Bournemouth have already completed the signing of left-back Adrien Truffert from Rennes this summer, having also signed Argentina under-23 international Julio Soler in the position in the winter transfer window.
Kerkez, joined Bournemouth from AZ for around £15.5million ($20m) in July 2023, and made 67 appearances for the south coast club across two seasons.
He started all 38 of Bournemouth’s Premier League matches during the 2024-25 campaign, providing six goals and two assists.
The full-back previously helped AZ to a fourth-place Eredivisie finish in 2022-23, alongside a semi-final appearance in that season’s Conference League.
He has made 23 appearances for Hungary since his senior debut in 2022.
The Bournemouth left-back is enjoying a stellar season and attracting interest from Europe’s top clubs.
If peak Kerkez were to be pitted against peak Robertson, the contest would be far more tightly fought but it is fair to say that an energetic 21-year-old would be an upgrade on a 31-year-old entering the twilight of his career.
No Liverpool fan can be anything but glowing in their praise of Robertson in a red shirt, but his powers are waning compared with previous seasons as more defensive mistakes crept into his game last season.
Kerkez’s relentless attacking mindset means that he can be guilty of switching off defensively himself at times, but as a player who is yet to reach his peak years there is plenty of opportunity to improve his positioning out of possession.
Going forward, there is little doubting Kerkez’s relentless runs forward dovetailing excellently with his respective left winger with underlapping or overlapping runs to stretch the opposition defence.
