Inter Milan have signed Curtis Jones from Liverpool in a deal price 35m euros (£30m).
The Reds accepted a proposal price 30m euros (£25.7m) plus 5m euros (£4.3m) in add-ons for the 25-year-old midfielder, who has signed a contract with Inter operating till 2031.
“It is a membership that I’ve wished to affix for some time now so I am excited,” Jones stated.
“I am a Scouse child who got here right through [at Liverpool] however I am at a degree now after I wish to take the subsequent step and I believe that is the right membership.”
Liverpool have negotiated a ten% sell-on clause as a part of the deal.
In June, Liverpool rejected a verbal provide of 25m euros (£21.7m) from the Serie A champions, with the Premier League facet valuing their academy graduate, who had one yr left on his contract, at about £35m.
Extra lately, Liverpool prompt that one thing in keeping with the £30m bundle that Inter paid Tottenham for Djed Spence would most likely imply a deal being struck.
Inter had been all for Jones in January and proposed a mortgage with a view to a switch, however that was turned down by Liverpool.
Jones made 228 appearances for Liverpool, having been given his debut by Jurgen Klopp in 2019.
Final season, he performed 49 occasions in all competitions however solely made 18 begins within the Premier League and struggled to safe a daily beginning spot in midfield below Arne Slot.
Jones, who joined Liverpool’s academy on the age of 9, has turn into the third English participant to affix Inter this summer time, after John Stones and Spence.
“After 16 years, it is time to say goodbye,” he wrote on Instagram.
“This membership is all I’ve ever recognized. I got here right here as a child and I am leaving as a person with a household of my very own, which most likely places into perspective simply how a lot of my life I’ve spent right here.
“Liverpool will all the time be an enormous a part of me. I got here right here as a child with a dream, and I am leaving having lived it.”