Alex Teixeira has told Shakhtar Donetsk that he would like to leave the club in January.

Liverpool made a £24.6 million bid for the 26-year-old last week and are ready to improve that offer while Chelsea have also been linked.

Teixeira, who is currently with Shakhtar at their training camp in Florida, told the Brazilian newspaper Globo: “I would like to move in this transfer window and have told them [Shakhtar] that. They have received a very good offer and they are working on a solution. But if I don’t go now then I will leave in the summer.

“After six years in Europe and with Shakhtar we are ready to move and I have spoken to my wife and daughter.”