[lfc-news] Reds close in on Dutch striker Kuyt - Echo

Liverpool Echo, 24 June 2005
Reds close in on Dutch striker Kuyt
By David Prentice, Liverpool Echo

LIVERPOOL'S hopes of landing top striking target Dirk Kuyt have
increased significantly.

Sources in Holland claimed the Feyenoord striker had travelled to
Liverpool to progress negotiations over his dream move to Anfield.

The Reds have been chasing the 29-goal striker for weeks, but the Dutch
press reported today that chief executive Rick Parry had begun
negotiations with Feyenoord and had actually enjoyed a meal with the
player last night.

Nobody from Liverpool was available to comment, but Feyenoord are
believed to have already lined up Middlesbrough's Jimmy Floyd
Hasselbaink as a replacement for Kuyt, who has publicly declared he
wants to move to the European Champions.

Feyenoord rate Kuyt in the £10m bracket, but the Reds are hoping to
persuade the Dutch to accept a player-plus-cash deal.

Reds' boss Rafa Benitez does have an extra £2m at his disposal, after
the greatest player Liverpool never had quit Anfield for good last night.

Alou Diarra is the young French international midfielder whom Gerard
Houllier brought to Anfield from Bayern Munich in 2002 on a free transfer.

But he failed to play a single game for the Reds, being immediately
loaned out Le Havre, then Bastia and finally Lens - whom he has now
joined permanently in a four-year deal worth £1.98m to the Reds.

Diarra won his first full French cap last season.

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