Minamino sets targets after signing for Liverpool

ZTN Sports Reporter

New Liverpool signing Takumi Minamino admitted he has realised his dream to join the club but said he wants to cap up a successful season by winning the Premier League and Champions League.

“It has been a dream, my dream to become a Liverpool player and I’m so excited that the moment has come true,” he told Liverpoolfc.com.

“To play in the Premier League was one of my targets. I think this is the top-class league in the world.”

The 24-year-old Japanese international, who impressed in two Champions League matches for Red Bull Salzburg against Jurgen Klopp’s side this season was announced as a Liverpool player on Thursday and is understood to have signed a four-and-a-half-year deal, taking him through to 2024.

He arrives for a bargain $9.5 million after the Reds activated his release fee last week.

Minamino will officially become a Liverpool player on January 1 and will go straight into Klopp‘s squad, meaning he could be involved in the FA Cup third-round tie at home to Everton on January 5.