Liverpool monitor £10m Ajax starlet

Liverpool have identified teenage playmaker Christian Eriksen as a potential summer signing after being impressed with the Ajax midfielder's strong performances in Holland.

The Anfield club showed their intent in January when they brought Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez to the club for a combined fee of £57.5million and now seem intent to continue their extravagant spending.

Damien Comolli, director of football at Liverpool, spent close to a week in Amsterdam as he negotiated a deal for Uruguayan forward Suarez and was said to be impressed with Eriksen.

The Danish international is still just 18-years-of-age but has impressed with a number of mature performances for Ajax and has been tipped as a potential star of the future.

Liverpool seem to have adopted a new transfer policy under owners Fenway Sports Group as they attempt to identify young, talented players with big futures ahead of them.

Eriksen certainly fits the current model as Liverpool believe the midfielder, who has been compared with Dennis Bergkamp, has a bright future and may be available for around £10m.

The Dutch club are currently suffering from financial woes and may be prepared to let the Denamrk international leave the club, rather than lose established stars such as Maarten Stekelenburg and Gregory van der Wiel.

Eriksen arrived at Ajax in 2008 and quickly progressed through the talented youth team to make his first team debut much quicker than anyone at the club expected.

The former Odense youth player has played nearly 50 times for the Eredvisie side and this season has managed two goals from his nine league starts.

Source: Sportsvibe

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