Liverpool and Stoke are set to fight it out for Lazio forward Mauro Zarate when the transfer window opens in January.
The out-of-favour striker has featured just five times for the Serie A side this season and would be available for around €10million, but Liverpool and Stoke face competition from other suitors around Europe, including Malaga and Spartak Moscow.
But the Argentine is believed to favour a move to the Premier League, according to La Lazio Siamo Noi, after his ill-fated spell in Italy.
Zarate has previously featured in English football, having had a brief loan spell at Birmingham City during the 2007/08 season, netting four goals in 14 appearances.
And Liverpool have previously shown interest in the Lazio man, having been in talks to take the 25-year-old to Anfield on a loan move in the summer of 2011, but the prospective deal fell through.
He instead remained in Serie A with Inter Milan, where he scored just twice in 22 league outings.
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