Atalanta is reportedly ready to pay Liverpool $14 million to sign Federico Chiesa — which is the same amount of money that the Reds paid Juventus to land the winger a year ago.

Chiesa's move to Liverpool has not gone to plan, with the winger starting just one Premier League game and one Champions League game throughout the entirety of last season.

Speculation surrounding the Italian's future at Liverpool has increased over the last couple of days after he was omitted from the Liverpool squad that traveled to Asia for a two-game pre-season tour of China.

Just hours prior to Liverpool's flight to Hong Kong, the Italy international scored in the Reds' 5-0 behind-closed-doors victory over Stoke City at the AXA Training Center.

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The suggestion from Liverpool is that Chiesa is currently nursing a slight fitness problem, but that has done nothing to quell talk about his future at the club.

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Sport Italia reports that Chiesa could sign a three-year contract with Atalanta — but the report interestingly claims that Liverpool is open to paying 50 per cent of his wages at the Italian club in a bid to get a deal over the line.

Chiesa appeals to Atalanta because of his vast Serie A experience, and the club is in the market for a new winger to replace Ademola Lookman, who looks set to join Inter Milan for $58 million.

Meanwhile, another Italian report states that Liverpool and Roma are in talks over a possible deal for Chiesa to join the Stadio Olimpico club on loan.



Chiesa scored in a behind-closed-doors friendly against Stoke over the weekend

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Speaking in an interview with Italian media in June, Chiesa revealed that a decision would soon be taken over his future.

“The year is over

I wouldn’t mind staying in Liverpool at all.

“In the first few months there was no shortage of difficulties, if you think that I arrived in Liverpool on 26 August and found myself catapulted to another planet.

"With other teammates, without having trained with them, but with a coach, zero friendlies, nothing… And, if you remember, in the autumn Liverpool were three times as good as the others, a crazy intensity.”