Argentine world champion Alexis Mac Allister, 24, has signed with Liverpool for an amount and duration not specified by the club, from Brighton, the Reds announced on Thursday. “We are adding a really talented, really smart and technically very talented boy to our squad and that is great news, really,” commented coach Jürgen Klopp, praising the “calm” and “the real intelligence of the game” of the Argentinian.
According to the press, the contract offered to the midfielder would run for five years. Mac Allister was a key part of Brighton’s successful season, which won the first European qualification in its history, and imposed itself within the Argentinian selection (16 caps for 1 goal), crowned world champion in Qatar . “It’s an incredible feeling. It’s a dream come true,” commented the player, who will wear number 10, on the club’s website. “It’s been a fantastic year for me — the World Cup, what we achieved with Brighton — (…) but since I won the World Cup, I said I want to win more. other trophies and I think this club will help me there,” he added.
The midfielder will reinforce a position weakened by the departures of Naby Keïta and James Milner. At the end of the best season of his career, ten goals and an assist, he found himself in the nominees for the trophy for the best young player in the Premier League. Title finally gleaned by Erling Haaland.
