Liverpool sign Solanke from Chelsea

Teenage striker Dominic Solanke, capped for England at the recent Under-20 World Cup, signed for Liverpool from Premier League champions Chelsea yesterday. The 19-year-old forward scored four goals in England’s Under-20 campaign which saw them beat Venezuela in June’s final and win their first global trophy since the senior team in 1966. “It feels amazing and everyone has made me feel welcome already,” said Solanke. “Even just pulling on the training top, I was over the moon. Hopefully I can put on the shirt in the near future and make some history here.”He could cost Liverpool around £3mn ($3.8mn, 3.4mn euros) according to reports but that will be decided by a tribunal because although his contract with Chelsea has expired, the club are due a fee for nurturing his talent and because he is under 24.Solanke, who played just once for Chelsea coming on as a substitute in a 2014 Champions League match, has senior level experience having spent the 2015/16 season out on loan in the Netherlands with Vitesse Arnhem where he scored seven times in 25 appearances.PSG set to seal Dani Alves signingParis Saint-Germain are set to make a statement summer signing by announcing the capture of Brazilian full-back Dani Alves, according to media reports. The French giants have called a press conference for today afternoon at 4pm local time (1400 GMT) at the Parc des Princes, at which they are expected to unveil the 34-year-old.The Qatar-owned outfit will then jet off to the United States for a pre-season tour. According to Le Parisien, Alves passed a medical in the French capital yesterday and will sign a two-year deal with last season’s Ligue 1 runners-up.Alves is a free agent after leaving Italian champions Juventus, whom he helped get to last season’s Champions League final. He had been expected to team up with his former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, and beating the English side to the Brazilian’s signature is a major coup for Paris. PSG’s one confirmed close-season signing so far is the Spanish left-back Yuri Berchiche from Real Sociedad for a reported 14mn euros ($16mn, £12.5mn).Monaco snap up young Spanish goalkeeper LlorenteMonaco have snapped up teenage goalkeeper Alvaro Fernandez Llorente from Osasuna on a three-year deal, the Ligue 1 club announced. The 19-year-old, a Spanish age grade international, played last season with the club’s reserve side, going on to make one La Liga appearance as a replacement. Llorente becomes the French champions’ sixth goalkeeper with Croatia international Danijel Subasic, Swiss veteran Diego Benaglio, Loic Badiashile and Seydou Sy, with Paul Nardi out on loan with Cercle Brugge in the Belgian second division.Hertha sign son of Germany legend KlinsmannThe Klinsmann name made a return to the German football league yesterday as Hertha Berlin signed the son of former United States coach and Germany striker Juergen Klinsmann. Jonathan Klinsmann, 20, the goalkeeper with the United States Under-20s team, has been given an undisclosed contract after two weeks on trial with the Bundesliga club.Hertha plan to make Klinsmann junior their third-choice goalkeeper, behind Norway’s Rune Jarstein and ex-Bayern Munich shotstopper Thomas Kraft, and he will gain experience for the Under-23 team in the regional league.“After breakfast, Michael Preetz (Hertha’s sports director) had a chat and said they had decided at short notice to offer a contract,” said Klinsmann junior at Hertha’s pre-season camp near Berlin. “It was an unbelievably emotional moment for me, because the club has such a family history. I’m looking forward to everything at the club, the city of Berlin and the challenge of playing in Germany.”His father, Jurgen Klinsmann, who enjoyed a glittering career with Bayern Munich, Monaco, Tottenham Hotspur and Inter Milan, has been a member of Hertha Berlin since 2004, while his grandfather Siegfried was born close to Berlin and was also a Hertha fan.However, Jonathan will be the first Klinsmann to play for Hertha. “Jonathan convinced us with his ability, charisma and ambition. He’ll now settle with us and develop step by step,” said Preetz. Klinsmann was voted the best goalkeeper at the Under-20 CONCACAF championship in Costa Rica in March when the USA won the regional title by beating Honduras 5-3 in a penalty shoot.Slovakia’s Mak returns to Greek club PAOKSlovak international midfielder Robert Mak has joined PAOK Thessaloniki on loan from Zenit St.Petersburg, the Greek Cup champions said. No details of the deal were revealed but PAOK said it had an option on purchasing the player after one season. Mak, 26, played for PAOK from 2014 to 2016 after four seasons at FC Nuremberg in Germany. Last season he played 17 games for Zenit scoring four goals.