Friday, November 22, 2024

Southampton and Liverpool in tussle for Rojo

Southampton have joined Liverpool in the race to sign Argentina defender Marcos Rojo, according to the Daily Star.

The South Coast club are desperate to bring in a defender having lost Luke Shaw, Dejan Lovren and Calum Chambers in recent weeks, and are keen to get one over the Reds, who have themselves signed three players from the Saints this summer.

Rojo was one of the star performers for Argentina at this summer’s World Cup finals in Brazil, playing in six of the South American sides games at the tournament, scoring his first international goal in the 3-2 win over Nigeria in the group stages.

At club level, he has been with Sporting for the past two seasons, turning out for them sixty-one times since signing from Spartak Moscow in the summer of 2012.

Liverpool face Southampton at Anfield two weeks on Sunday – the opening weekend of the new Premier League season.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Deke Hardman


Freelance football writer with a love of the game that goes back to the mid nineties when both his beloved Nottingham Forest and England had genuine hope of acheiving some level of success. A regular contributor to both SoccerNews.com and FreeBetting.com, Deke also dabbles in music journalism with his heart and head still stuck in the latter years of the twentieth century.

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