Liverpool have accepted an undisclosed bid from Bundesliga side Hoffenheim for out of favour striker Ryan Babel. The Holland international has been given permission to travel to Germany and discuss personal terms with his prospective new employers.
Babel may have cost £10m from Ajax in 2007 but he never convinced any of the Reds manager's he played under and struggled to hold down a first team place.
Even caretaker boss Kenny Dalglish used Babel as a bench warmer in the Merseyside derby on Sunday.
About his lack of first-team chances, the 24-year-old said: "For a player of my age it is important to be playing week in week out."
According to Germany's Bild newspaper, the two clubs have agreed on a fee in the region of seven million euros.
"Following the departure of (Demba) Ba and the injury to (Chinedu) Obasi, we were in an emergency situation," said Hoffenheim's owner Dietmar Hopp.
"Babel was one of the prime candidates who our general manager Ernst Tanner was most convinced about."