Fenerbahce sign Martin Skrtel from Liverpool
Fenerbahce have signed Martin Skrtel from Liverpool on a £5m.
The 31-year-old ends an eight-and-half year spell with the Merseysiders after falling down the pecking order under Jurgen Klopp last season.
The centre-back will be unveiled officially as a Fenerbahce player on Friday in a press conference after he passed a medical on Wednesday.
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The emergence of the partnership between Dejan Lovren and Mamadou Sakho kept Skrtel out of the starting eleven for much of the second half of the season, with the defender making just 28 appearances in all competitions last campaign.
The Slovakia captain joined Liverpool in 2008 from Zenit St Petersburg in a £6m deal, played 319 games for the Anfield in that period.
Skrtel scored 18 goals from centre-back and helped Liverpool to a League Cup victory in 2012.
Despite his lack of action at club level last season, Skrtel remained a crucial part of the Slovakia team that competed in Euro 2016.
The defender captained his country and played every minute of their campaign before Slovakia were knocked out by Germany in the last-16.
Klopp has already added to his defensive ranks with the arrival of Joel Matip from Schalke, but with Mamadou Sakho ruled out for at least another month Liverpool now have just three fit centre-backs available.
