Liverpool FC have officially announced that they have reached an agreement with their German counterpart from Stuttgart to include Japan’s Wataru Endo in the current summer transfer period.
And according to what the Reds’ statement corroborated, the 30-year-old Japanese midfielder Endo signed his transfer contracts to Anfield after undergoing medical checks he had with the Reds, noting that he had a contract with Stuttgart until June. 2024. .
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Endo will take the No. 6 position in the middle of the Reds’ squad for the current 2023-2024 season, replacing the Brazilian Fabinho, who left for the Saudi Federation of Jeddah with Mercato this summer.
According to the English press, Wataru Endo has signed a 4-season contract with the Reds that will be linked to Anfield until 2027.
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The cost of Endo’s transfer to the English team was around 19 million euros, according to the international network Sky Sports in their reports in recent hours.
And the Japanese Endo moved to the ranks of Stuttgart in 2020 and played 133 matches with him, scored 15 goals and made 12 others for his colleagues.
Endo is considered the captain of the Japanese national team, where he became a member of the national team in 2015, and played 50 matches with Samurai, during which he scored two goals.
The Japanese deal, Wataru Endo, is considered Liverpool’s third deal of the current summer transfer period, as Liverpool have not been successful in the current transfer season except for only two deals, as the start was with Argentina’s Alexis McAllister from Brighton.
As such, Liverpool secured the signing of Hungarian Dominik Suboslay from Leipzig’s German ranks to bolster the red team’s midfield.
Source: “Wakalat”
