Adam Lallana set to reduce wages to join Brighton on…

Brighton & Hove Albion have won the race to sign Adam Lallana on a free transfer from Liverpool by offering him a longer deal with the possibility of a move into coaching at the end of his playing career.

The Athletic understands the 32-year-old former England midfielder will sign a three-year contract and take a cut on his estimated £100,000-a-week wages at Anfield to team up with Brighton’s ambitious Premier League project under head coach Graham Potter. The club’s long-term goal is to establish themselves in the top 10 in the top-flight.

Brighton see Lallana as the type of high-quality capture to enhance their development from a side destined to finish in the bottom six for the third season in succession.

Leicester, Burnley and Tottenham have all been linked with Lallana in recent weeks. At Leicester, he would have been reunited with Brendan Rodgers, the manager who signed him for Liverpool from Southampton in 2014, but rivals for his…