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Daniel Agger is ready to sign a lucrative new deal with Liverpool and snub Manchester City - despite his red card shocker.

Danish defender Agger is 'desperately close' to agreeing new terms with the Kop after weeks of speculation about his future at Anfield.

Agger will be given a bumper new deal - in the region of £80,000-a-week - as a reflection of the £25 million fee slapped on his head when City came calling and even Barcelona took an interest.

And Liverpool badly want Agger to put pen to paper immediately to give Brendan Rodgers a boost after a torrid opening defeat at West Brom where

Rodgers could have done with the money from a sale to re-invest in two or three new faces, but Agger has been one of the team's better performers.

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Liverpool had found it hard to get a potental replacement too, with an inquiry for Tottenham's Steven Caulker rebuffed Spurs are rejecting all inquiries for Caulker who is back at the club after loan spells but was surprisingly left out of the team at Newcastle.