Mother Riise now says its Liverpool
last updated Saturday 16th June 2001, 6:38 PM
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Norwegian international John Arne Riise is
set to snub Fulham and sign for Liverpool instead.
The Monaco player's agent said on Saturday it was "100% certain"
Riise would join Liverpool.
On Friday Berit Riise - the player's mother and agent - seemed certain that
the midfielder would be joining Premiership new-boys Fulham.
"If the medical goes to plan then John Arne will sign. We have reached
an agreement with Fulham that we'll go there on Monday morning," she
said.
If everything goes to plan then he will be a Liverpool player from next
week
Now there has been a u-turn and Riise is now set to fly to Merseyside instead
of London on Monday.
She told Norwegian newspaper Sunnmorsposten: "We are 100% certain that
this deal will go through.
"If everything goes to plan then he will be a Liverpool player from
next week.
"The plane tickets to Liverpool have already been booked. We will have
talks with the club on Monday, and at the same time John Arne will undergo
a medical."
A snag looked to have hit the sale of the 20-year-old when his former Norwegian
side Aalesund insisted on exercising the 20% sell-on clause they had inserted
in the terms of his transfer to Monaco.
But Berit Riise is sure this will no longer be a problem.
"As far as Aalesund are concerned there was a slight disagreement about
how their 20% would be worked out," she said, "but everything
is sorted out now."
Riise was a regular member of the 1999-2000 title-winning Monaco side, but
fell out of favour with coach Claude Puel after admitting his desire to
leave.
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Source bbc
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