LIVERPOOL HAVE ANNOUNCED the signing of highly-rated defender Joe Gomez from Charlton Athletic.
The 18-year-old, who can play either centre-half or full-back, made 24 appearances for the Championship club last season and also represented England at U-19 level.
A fee of around €4.9m (£3.5m) is believed to have been paid to the Addicks, while the deal sees Gomez tied down to a five-year contract.
He is Liverpool’s fourth transfer of the summer after James Milner, Danny Ings and Adam Bogdan.
“It’s a dream come true,” Gomez told the club’s website. “It’s a bit surreal and it hasn’t really hit me yet. But I’m buzzing and just excited to get started.
The club has got great history and it’s a great club, and one that I’ve always been following from when I was young.
“The style of football and the top players here was somewhere that I wanted to go and get better and learn, and play good football. It was an easy decision.”
