Report: Liverpool told they must pay €50m for Roma midfielder Miralem Pjanic

Who will wear the No8 next season?

The search for the replacement for Steven Gerrard is well and truly on. Or at least it is as far as the papers are concerned. Barely a day goes by without Liverpool being linked with a big-money move for a new midfielder. One day it's Radja Nainggolan, the next it's Ruben Neves. Some days it's even Fabian Delph. But one player who has been consistently linked with a summer move to Anfield is Roma's Miralem Pjanic. The speculation about Pjanic's future intensified last week when Brendan Rodgers visited Rome, but the Serie A side have now come out and placed a €50 million (£37 million) price tag on the 24-year-old Bosnian's head (not literally, that would be ridiculous). The Mirror report that Rodgers met with Roma's sporting director, Walter Sabatini, last week and was informed of the club's valuation for Pjanic. Liverpool are said to value Pjanic at €27 million (£20 million) so there will be a fair few more sojourns to Rome for Anfield officials in the coming months if a price is to be agreed. Of course the last midfielder to move from Roma to Anfield in a big-money deal didn't exactly turn out so well. Step forward Alberto Aquilani. Hat-tip to The Mirror