Liverpool lose out on Polish starlet

Liverpool target Arkadiusz Milik has completed a move to German side Bayer Leverkusen.

The 18-year-old Gornik Zabrze star has taken the Polish top-flight by storm with seven goals in 14 games - even a red card in his last club match against Wisla Krakow failing to dampen interest in the teenager.

Poland's domestic league is in the middle of a winter break so the rising star took his goalscoring boots away with the national side and hit the opener in the 4-1 win over Macedonia.

Liverpool and Torino were alerted to the youngster's burgeoning reputation, along with a number of other clubs across Europe in the market for a striker.

But Leverkusen are getting a bargain with an initial fee of just £2m being agreed, due to the club's financial fragility, with a number of add-ons included in the deal.