Inter Milan Nears £30m Deal for Liverpool's Jones
Inter Milan are edging towards a £30m deal for Liverpool midfielder Jones, with confidence growing in Italy that the transfer will soon be wrapped up, according to BBC Sport.
The Serie A champions have chased the 25-year-old for months. They have admired him for longer than that. This time, their persistence finally looks set to pay off.
Valuation gap narrows
Liverpool rejected a verbal offer of £21.7m from Inter in June, holding firm at a valuation of around £35m for a player who has just one year left on his contract. Talks did not stop there. The two clubs kept negotiating, and the gap has shrunk significantly in recent weeks.
Liverpool’s stance has been clear all summer. They will sell, but only at a price that reflects Jones’s Premier League experience and homegrown status. Internally, the benchmark has been a package similar to the £30m Inter recently paid Tottenham for Djed Spence.
Inter are now understood to be moving towards that figure, with only finer details left to resolve.
Long-running pursuit
This is not a sudden swoop from the Nerazzurri. They tried to prise Jones away in January with a loan offer including an option to buy. Liverpool dismissed it quickly, unwilling to weaken their squad mid-season.
Inter did not walk away. Scouts kept watching. Negotiators kept calling. The sense in Italy now is that the breakthrough they have pushed for is finally within reach.
End of a Liverpool chapter
For Jones, a move to San Siro would close a major chapter of his career and life. A local lad who joined Liverpool’s academy at nine, he climbed every rung of the ladder to become a first-team regular under Jurgen Klopp.
Since his debut in 2019, he has made 228 appearances for the club, producing several standout goals and performances that underlined his technical quality and composure on the ball. His journey from academy hopeful to senior mainstay has been one of the more complete homegrown stories of the Klopp era.
Yet the last season left a mark. Jones featured 49 times in all competitions, but only 18 of those were Premier League starts. He drifted in and out of Arne Slot’s starting XI, never quite nailing down a permanent role in midfield.
New challenge on the horizon
Liverpool’s hierarchy remain open to keeping him, and new head coach Andoni Iraola is understood to want Jones in his plans. But contract talks have stalled. The player’s desire for a fresh challenge, specifically at Inter, has grown stronger as the summer has gone on.
So the situation is tilting. Liverpool want the right fee. Inter believe they are close to it. Jones sees a new stage and a different league.
If the final details fall into place, a boyhood Red will walk away from Anfield and into the glare of San Siro, swapping one European giant for another and testing whether his next peak lies under the floodlights of Milan.
