Liverpool will splash £15million on Newcastle defender Jose Enrique in the summer – after a frustrating four-year wait.
Ex-Kop boss Rafa Benitez tried to sign the Spaniard in 2007.
But Newcastle paid Villareal £6.3m for the left-back nicknamed The Bull and gave him a five-year contract.
Now Kenny Dalglish is hoping he’ll succeed where Benitez failed and get Enrique, 25, to provide the ammunition for his old Toon team-mate Andy Carroll.
Everton’s Leighton Baines has been strongly linked to a switch to Anfield – as revealed in last week’s Daily Star Sunday – but the Goodison club will fight to keep him out of their rivals’ grasp.
Director of football Damien Comolli has watched Enrique in action and has no doubt that he’s the left-back for Liverpool.
A deal could be pushed through in the next couple of months – providing Italian giants AC Milan don’t step in with their own bid.
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