Beaten Champions League finalists Liverpool have agreed a fee of about £66.8 million for AS Roma goalkeeper Alisson.

The Premier League club are now expected to hold talks with the 25-year-old Brazil international who has been in Italy for two years and played 37 Serie A games last season after starting his career at Brazilian side Internacional.

Alisson played all five games at the just concluded FIFA World Cup finals where he kept three clean sheets, as Brazil were knocked out at the quarter-final stage by Belgium.

Liverpool’s bid, which is 70 million euros, would overtake the current record for a goalkeeper (53m) that was paid by Juventus to Parma for Gianluigi Buffon in 2001.

The English Premier League record for a goalkeeper is the 40m euros chalked up by Manchester City to acquire Ederson from Benfica in June 2017.