ronaldo football kit for kids The Spain midfielder’s move to Anfield is complete; the 29-year-old having put pento paper on a four-year contract with the Premier League champions.

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It’s some signing; a world-class player joining a world-class team. And at an initial ￡20m (€22m/$26m), it represents something of a coup for Liverpool and their owners, Fenway Sports Group (FSG).

It also brings to an end a saga which began not in 2020, pre-Covid-19, but all the way back in 2013.

It is more than seven years since a delegation from Anfield, led by Dave Fallows, the club’s head of recruitment, met with Pere Guardiola at a waterfront hotel in Barcelona.

It was an important meeting. Liverpool were, at that point, trying to keep Luis Suarez at the club – this, remember, was the summer of Arsenal and the infamous ‘￡40m plus ￡1’ bid. Guardiola, the brother of Manchester City boss Pep, was Suarez’s agent, and was keen to secure his client a move, if not to London then to Madrid or, as turned out to be the case, to Barcelona.

Suarez, naturally, was discussed at the meeting, but it cheap childrens football kits was another of Guardiola’s clients that Liverpool were really interested in.