Liverpool’s Brazilian midfielder Lucas could leave Europe for good and rejoin his boyhood club Gremio, reports the Echo.
The 30-year-old has been continuously linked to other teams, notably Inter Milan and sides from Turkey, but it could be that a romantic return to South America is on the cards – likely in the summer come the end of this season.
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Jurgen Klopp wants to keep Lucas until the summer as cover, and agent Metin Korkmaz claimed this was the reason Klopp stopped Lucas moving to Galatasaray a few weeks back.
Lucas has been with us since 2007, when Rafa Benitez signed a then gangly attacking midfielder from Gremio. In the years since, Lucas has moved further back into a midfielder, an anchorman and is now a utility centre-back under the manager’s guidance.
Klopp’s relationship with Lucas is a positive one, but our longest serving player deserves more minutes than he’s currently getting – so we’d back him to leave come June – after he’s had the testimonial he’s entitled to for ten years service at the club.