LIVERPOOL – Argentine midfielder Maxi Rodriguez, who played for Atletico Madrid on Tuesday will travel to England to join Liverpool.

Maxi, who will partner his Liverpool teammate Javier Mascherano, eventually traveling to England to join his new club, after having passed the appropriate medical examination, while the player was trained both still at Cerro del Espino, said the club mattress.

It was initially scheduled to Argentine former Espanyol player Newell’sy, traveled Monday to the English city, but given the weather conditions that devastated the peninsula, with heavy snow, had to stay in Madrid.