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Promising 19-year-old midfielder Bobby Clark is reuniting with former Liverpool assistant Pep Lijnders in Austria.
Liverpool have yet to make a signing for new manager Arne Slot but the club continue to make bank off sales of the stockpiled youth talent the club built up over the Jürgen Klopp era, with promising 19-year-old midfielder Bobby Clark today officially leaving the club.
Clark joins RB Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga, with the Reds unable to resist cashing in with a £10M transfer fee for a player whose playing time would likely have been limited to domestic cup games this season such is Liverpool’s depth in the middle of the park.
Sporting director Richard Hughes has also managed to include a 17.5% sell-on fee that would see the Reds further compensated for any profit made should he flourish with Salzburg, as well as the right to match any potential future transfer bid for the player.
Clark is a relatively recent arrival at Liverpool, having joined the academy in summer 2021 from Newcastle for a £1.5M fee, and after making 12 first team appearances last season—including memorably in a League Cup final victory over Chelsea—he now moves on.
In doing so, he reunites with long-time Klopp assistant manager Pepijn Lijnders, who took a key role in his development with the Reds in recent seasons and whose belief in the player was key in Salzburg’s willingness to pay and Clark’s willingness to join his new club.
