Reds to pay record fee for striker

LIVERPOOL will pay Burnley £6.5million for striker Danny Ings – a record for a fee ordered by a tribunal.

The figure eclipses the £3.5million sum Chelsea had to pay Manchester City in 2009 for forward Daniel Sturridge – coincidentally now also at Anfield although add-on clauses took the England international’s eventual cost to £8.3million.

Liverpool have also announced they will pay a further £1.5million in add-ons in accordance with the Professional Football Compensation Committee’s ruling, while there is a 20 per cent cut due to Burnley on any future profit should the club sell the player.

Ings has played just eight matches for Liverpool, scoring three goals, after sustaining a cruciate knee ligament injury in his first week back training with the club having made his England debut against Lithuania on October 12.

That meant the 23-year-old has yet to make an appearance under manager Jurgen Klopp.