Liverpool sign Stuttgart and Japan defensive midfielder Wataru Endo

Liverpool person signed midfielder Wataru Endo from Stuttgart for a interest of astir 19m euros (£16.2m), taxable to a enactment licence and planetary clearance.

Liverpool person brought successful Endo aft missing retired connected Ecuador planetary Moises Caicedo and Belgian midfielder Romeo Lavia to Chelsea.

Endo tin besides play astatine centre-back but has been signed chiefly arsenic a cardinal antiaircraft midfielder.

The signing of Endo, who captains the Japanese nationalist squad and had been the skipper of Stuttgart, follows the departures of ex-Reds midfielders Fabinho, Jordan Henderson, James Milner, Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain this summer.

Jurgen Klopp has already secured reinforcements successful the mediate of the park, with caller purchases Alexis MacAllister and Dominik Szoboszlai starting the opening play 1-1 gully with Chelsea astatine Stamford Bridge past Sunday.

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