Some say Liverpool may have signed "the next Drogba" in Bayer Leverkusen youngster Samed Yesil. The Reds snapped up the promising 18-year-old from Bayer Leverkusen earlier this week and he could turn out to be the summer's greatest transfer coup at just £1 million.
The 18-year-old German, who has represented his country at under-16, 17 and 18 level, is a promising young forward who scored six goals for Germany at the Under-17 World Cup last year.
Yesil was not involved for Leverkusen, now managed by the former Liverpool defender Sami Hyypia, when they played Liverpool in a pre-season friendly at Anfield earlier this month but has an impressive goalscoring record at youth level.
He will become Brendan Rodgers's fourth summer signing after Fabio Borini, Joe Allen and Oussama Assaidi, with Nuri Sahin on a year's loan from Real Madrid.
Serbia drove through Nico Elvedi's own objective in first-half stoppage time and Aleksandar Mitrovic multiplied the benefit before Predrag Rajkovic saved a punishment from Swiss striker Breel Embolo. Serbia took a giant stride towards survival in the UEFA Nations League top-flight by securing a 2-0 victory over near rivals Switzerland - their first-ever head-to-head win. With Serbia and Switzerland essentially competing against each other to avoid relegation from Group A4, you’d have been forgiven for expecting a brighter start from two sides desperate to beat the other. It turned out to be quite the opposite though, as the only bright spot in an incredibly dull start came when Veljko Birmancevic ’s tame effort was easily gathered by Gregor Kobel . It took until just after the half-hour mark for the game's first big chance to arrive, but it was wasted by Breel Embolo who skewed wide after he was teed up by Silvan Widmer . That ...
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