Marca claims that the Anfield club is prepared to pay 20 million
euros for the attacking midfielder, 4.5 million of which would go
to Baptista's former club Sevilla, due to a contractual
clause.
The Spanish paper goes on to claim that Madrid, while not going
quite so far as to declare Baptista unwanted, are keen to go ahead
with the transfer, so as to provide some extra funds in the war
chest, should they make another approach for Daniel Alves.
Baptista is thought to be happy at Real Madrid - as long as he is
not formally told that there is no room for him in coach Schuster's
plans. During the summer he received a recall to the squad, putting
paid to that idea for now - but he's barely featured since
then.
