Liverpool are to make a firm push to sign Real Madrid's Rodrygo after a super-agent was deployed - but it could spell the end for an Arne Slot favourite.

The 22-year-old midfielder should be back in action by the time Madrid host Barcelona in the first Clasico of the season in late October.

Five years later, Álvaro Carreras is back with Real Madrid. The Spanish left back cost €50 million ($58.4 million) to sign from Benfica, the club he joined a permanent transfer just last summer from Manchester United. The Portuguese side had paid only €6 million ($7 million), agreed as part of loan from England.

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