Milos Kerkez to Liverpool £40m transfer claim made as three-man shortlist 'revealed'

Milos Kerkez continues to be linked with a move to Liverpool this summer

Milos Kerkez has posted a photo alongside Dominik Szoboszlai as a report claims that Liverpool are closing in on the in-demand Bournemouth full-back. The 21-year-old has been linked with a move to Anfield after impressing for Andoni Iraola's side this season.

The ECHO understands that Liverpool are interested in the 21-year-old. However, the Reds are also keeping tabs on a number of other potential options ahead of the forthcoming transfer window.

Taking to Instagram on Wednesday night, the full-back has posted an image of himself with Dominik Szoboszlai away on international duty with Hungary. The post came just hours before a report emerged claiming that Liverpool are making moves now to ensure they don’t miss out on Kerkez this summer.

According to the i, contact has been made with representatives and Bournemouth and the Premier League side will not sell for less than £40m. The report also claims that Liverpool had lined up Kerkez as part of a three-man left-back shortlist.

The other two players on the shortlist are Bayern Munich’s Alphonso Davies and Nuno Mendes of Paris Saint-Germain, but the Bournemouth star is now the number one choice.

Speaking about his Bournemouth future, the defender told Nemzetisport last moth: "It wouldn't look bad [working with Szoboszlai at Liverpool], that's for sure.

"But it's too early to talk about something like that. I have big goals with Bournemouth, we still have a lot of games to win, that's the most important thing right now."

Former Bournemouth defender Joe Partington spoke about Kerkez's future on BBC Radio Solent earlier this month. He said: "He's a standout player at the moment. He's involved in moments that define the outcomes of games.

"When Kerkez is on it, which he has been for the majority of this season, making those lung-busting 70-yard sprints to either recover or to overlap, and the Newcastle goal sticks out in my head, the assist over the weekend as well, the more moments like that, which he is doing consistently, the more people speak about you and the more people speak about you the more calls he will receive from those [bigger] clubs.

"From a player's perspective he's in a nice moment, playing very well. He probably knows there's interest and he's using it as fuel. Inevitable is a strong word, but I think it's pretty, pretty clear that he will probably move on."