Klopp shop goes on
AITOR SETS ALVARO GOALS
ROMA’S Argentine midfield star Leandro Paredes is an £18million target for Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp. AC Milan are tracking Paredes, 22 (left) but Roma would rather do business with Liverpool or Leicester, who are also keen. The Anfield club’s American owners are ready to bankroll Klopp as he goes in search of major honours this season. Klopp has already splashed around £65m this summer, with Sadio Mane and Georginio Wijnaldum the highest-profile of the new arrivals at Anfield. But chairman Tom Werner is ready to fund even more big buys. He said: “I think our supporters see that the players Jurgen has recruited have real quality. “He believes that those players will make a positive impact. It’s our job to support him.” STEVE MILLAR RONALD KOEMAN has confirmed Romelu Lukaku WILL be staying at Everton this summer.
Writing in his column in Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Toffees boss Koeman said: “Ten days before the transfer deadline he came into my office and said he was no longer leaving and had decided to stay.
“His decision is the same value as a big-money transfer.”
The on-loan Manchester United forward, 21, could make his first start for the Black Cats in today’s Wear-Tees derby against Middlesbrough at the Stadium of Light.
Januzaj has happy memories of his first visit to Wearside in October 2013 – he scored twice on his full debut as a United side managed by Moyes won 2-1.
Now Moyes (right) wants the Belgian, who had a frustrating loan spell with Borussia Dortmund last season, to do the hard yards and prove he has what it takes to get to the top.
The Scot said: “The big thing for me in that game was that Adnan scored two great goals and it was a wee bit of the emergence of this boy.
“We’d seen him in pre-season with United – it was him and Jesse Lingard who were the two boys who had featured. We really
KARANKA is asking Alvaro Negredo to be Middlesbrough’s answer to Jermain Defoe.
Former Man City striker Negredo, signed by promoted Boro on a season’s loan from Valencia, scored in the 1-1 home draw with Stoke on the opening day of the campaign.
Now Negredo – 31 yesterday – goes into a derby shoot-out today with Sunderland’s Defoe, whose 15 league goals last season kept the Black Cats in the top flight.
Boro boss Karanka said: “I hope Alvaro can do for us what Defoe did for Sunderland last season. That would be amazing. When you have a player who can score 20 or 25 goals, it’s a massive achievement. Alvaro has one already and he took it well in the game with Stoke.
“I was conscious he played well at Man City. When you do that, you show you can cope with pressure, you have qualities. So Alvaro has everything – it is just he needs to work on his confidence.
“I’m really pleased with his attitude since he arrived.
“I know, when he’s fully fit, he’s going to score goals.’’
Spaniard Karanka aims to keep praising his striker to ensure the goals keep coming.
He said: “When we approached him we knew he needed confidence.
“For him, the Premier League is the best football and he needed a coach, a club who trusted him. I could offer him that and I had confidence in him.’’ CLIVE HETHERINGTON HIT MAN: Negredo will score goals says his Boro boss