FORMER Celtic target Joe Allen is poised for a £15million move to Stoke City.
Liverpool will sell the Welsh international midfielder with two additional clauses in the deal.
The Anfield side are demanding Mark Hughes’ team pay an extra £2million if they stay in the Premier League – and finish higher than last season’s 10th place.
That would take the cash outlay by the Brittania Stadium outfit to £15million – the same fee the Merseyside men splashed to take the 26-year-old anchorman from Brendan Rodgers’ Swansea in August 2012.
Hughes is ready to agree the conditions to land his fellow-Welshman in time to take him to his team’s training camp in Orlando later in the week.
Liverpool knocked back an £8million bid from Allen’s former club Swansea last month.
New Hoops’ boss Rodgers had hoped to lure his ex-player to the five-in-a-row champions, but was forced to drop his interest when the hard-working Allen starred in his nation’s surge to the semi-final of the Euro Championships in France.
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