LIVERPOOL WANT £12M BENTLEY
Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez will make a £12million bid to sign England star David Bentley from Blackburn - and be told to come back with more cash.
Benitez is going to sound out Rovers with an opening offer as he looks for an out-and-out right-winger. However, Blackburn want at least £15m for unsettled Bentley, who has refused to sign a new deal with Mark Hughes' club. Benitez values Bentley at less than that and may go back for Wigan's Ecuadorian star Luis Antonio Valencia if he is rejected. Latics want around £10million.
The Kop chief has gone into transfer action as he expects to sell Peter Crouch to Portsmouth in a deal worth £12m eventually - with terms on a £4m-a-year personal deal already agreed.
Benitez wants to spend the cash on a rightwinger, moving out Jermaine Pennant if he gets the right offer, but he does not have unlimited funds.
News of Liverpool's interest will alert Bentley. He seems to be interested in leaving Blackburn after dropping heavy hints in recent weeks.
Bentley also believes Chelsea are going to bid for him, but that is unlikely to happen in a hurry.
However, unless Liverpool mat ch Blackburn's valuation then the deal is going nowhere and Benitez will try to agree a price with Wigan for Valencia.
高治得12M就有D失望
另外VALENCIA個價應該只值8M左右
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