Liverpool will move for Manchester City defender Kolo Toure
on a free transfer once his contract expires in June.
With Jamie Carragher having retired, Liverpool are looking
to sign two centre backs and Schalke's Kyriakos Papadopoulos is a leading
target.
Toure is in the United States as part of City's post-season
tour but the proposed move to Anfield is likely to progress quickly once he
returns.
The 32-year-old joined City from Arsenal in July 2009 for
£14m.
The expected signing of the Ivory Coast international goes
against the Liverpool owners' preference for buying youth and he would be the
first player over the age of 24 that Brendan Rodgers has signed since taking
charge at Anfield.
Toure only made 18 appearances for Manchester City in the
2012-13 season and was left out of their squad for the Champions League
campaign.
He and younger brother Yaya Toure were part of the Blues'
team that won the Premier League in 2012, the club's first title for 44 years.
However, his City career never recovered from a six-month
ban during the 2010-11 season for taking a banned substance found in diet
pills.
Kolo Toure factfile
Born: 19 March
1981
Position: Defender
Club career:
Arsenal 2002-09 (326 appearances, 14 goals), Manchester City (102 appearances,
three goals)
International
record: 105 appearances, six goals
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