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Liverpool has accepted a bid for winger Ryan Babel from Bundesliga club Hoffenheim.
The Premier League club says the Netherlands international now has permission to discuss personal terms, having already traveled to Germany.
German newspaper Bild bas quoted Hoffenheim's main financial backer, software billionaire Dietmar Hopp, as saying that Hoffenheim was in an ''emergency situation.'' Hoffenheim is set to lose Senegal striker Demba Ba while Nigeria forward Chinedu Obasi has a long-term injury.
Hopp says ''Babel was one of the preferred candidates who our manager, Ernst Tanner, was most convinced by.''
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Babel was fined 10,000 pounds ($16,000) Monday by England's Football Association over Twitter postings that criticized a referee.
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