Liverpool are due another windfall from their sale of Raheem Sterling to Manchester City.
The London Evening Standard says Sterling is on the verge of triggering the latest add-on payment agreed as part of his £44million move that took him from Liverpool to Manchester City.
And the England international's fee will rise to £49m by the end of the season if Pep Guardiola's Premier League champions continue to sweep all before them.
Sterling needs to make just seven more starts in the Premier League and Champions League combined to prompt another £500,000 instalment of the complex deal that took him to the Etihad three years ago.
The 23-year-old became the most expensive English player of all time when signing for City. And although he has just signed a new five-year contract, which could be worth up to £300,000-a-week, he is still to meet all of the clauses set as part of £5m in add-ons in his original deal.