News Summary

• Liverpool scouts have been monitoring Santos defender Vinicius Lira.
• The 18-year-old is said to have the kind of attacking full-back profile favoured by Anfield recruitment chiefs.
• There’s a ‘growing belief’ within Santos that he could prove to be a more complete prospect than positional peer Souza.
• Milos Kerkez is already in situ as the readymade successor to the Scot.
• Andy Robertson is set to become a free agent in the summer once his contract expires.