Traore's Liverpool career looks to be over
Premiership pair Charlton and Bolton are leading the chase to sign Liverpool defender Djimi Traore.
The 26-year-old Mali international is ready to quit Anfield after manager Rafael Benitez admitted his first-team opportunites will be limited. Traore has three years left on a lucrative deal at Liverpool, so any move may be on a season-long loan.
Fulham had been linked with Traore, but they have turned their attention to Middlesbrough's Franck Quedrue.
Traore was a member of Liverpool's Champions League winning side against AC Milan in Istanbul in May 2005. He has made 160 appearances for Liverpool since being signed by Gerard Houllier from Laval for £550,000 in February 1999.
I was going to slap the video of his own goal against Burnley, but on watching it, found it too painful.
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