Football Corner

Portugal midfielder Simao has passed a medical at Liverpool and is set to sign for the European Champions. The Benfica star is expected to joing Liverpool proir to Wednesday's deadline for a fee of around £10million. Simao is understood to of agreed personal terms with the club, having been granted permission from Benfica to talk to Liverpool.

Simao set for Liverpool
The wide man's agent Jorge Baidek has confirmed to skysports.com that the talks are heading towards a positive conclusion. "Now the operation is very advanced and we wait for a final solution in the next few hours," Baidek told skysports.com.

However Benfica are now trying to call off the deal with the reds because they don't want to lose such a good player. There have been suggestions that Benfica want Djibril Cisse in part exchange but that appears to be an unlikely scenario.

Simao would be a great signing for Liverpool and £10million seems a good price for a great wide player because if you think about it Chelsea paid £21million for Shaun Wright-Phillips. Simao would probablly replace Luis Garcia wide on the right and I don't think the Spanaird will be to happy about that. Good signing Rafa.