Liverpool set to win Joe Cole race after offering the England star a money-spinning contract

18 July 2010 12:49
Joe Cole is ready to snub Arsenal and Tottenham for a move to Liverpool.[LNB]Cole is a free agent after leaving Chelsea earlier this summer but has yet to commit his future to any club despite the start of the new season quickly approaching.[LNB]But it is understood that the England international is ready to put pen to paper on a money-spinning deal at Anfield.[LNB] Joe the Red: Cole is on the brink of a move to Liverpool[LNB]The News of the World reports that Cole has been offered a lucrative £90,000-per-week three-year deal by Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson, who hopes the capture of Cole will go some way towards persuading Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres  to stay.[LNB]Cole's preference is to move to a Champions League club - which Arsenal and Tottenham would offer him - but the prospect of becoming a senior player at Anfield could persuade the former West Ham forward to settle for Europa League football.[LNB]Hodgson wants Cole to make his decision by the end of the week.[LNB] Foreign Office report lifts the lid on badly behaved Brits on holidayFalling price of Cole: Why Joe's dream of a pay bonanza now looks doomedCole wanted by Mourinho: Real Madrid boss also eyes Inter raid for Maicon  

Source: Daily_Mail