Liverpool have tabled a £16 million offer for Alberto Moreno, the Sevilla left back, as Brendan Rodgers looks to strengthen his defence ahead of the new Premier League season.

Sevilla received the bid – which would also allow them to take Suso, the midfield player, on a season long loan – yesterday and are now considering whether or not it is substantial enough to allow the highly-rated defender to join Liverpool.

Along with Liverpool’s transfer committee, Rodgers has been considering a number of options to fill the left-back slot with Chelsea’s Ryan Bertrand, who spent the second half of last season on loan at Aston Villa, and Filipe Luís of Atletico Madrid among those who have been scouted.

It is Moreno, though, who has emerged