Brendan Rodgers is also eyeing right- back Clyne, valued by the Saints at £15m.
Clyne, 23, is seen as a potential replacement for Glen Johnson, 29, whose long-term future at Liverpool is in doubt due to a contract wrangle.
Rodgers (right) believes former Crystal Palace defender Clyne would fit in well at Anfield with his pace and attacking style.
While Lallana, has privately let it be known he expects to be a Liverpool player next season.
These are now worrying times for Saints fans with boss Mauricio Pochettino wanted by Spurs and left-back Luke Shaw, 18, on his way to Manchester United for £27m.
Lallana and Shaw are in England’s World Cup squad and boss Roy Hodgson has repeated that he doesn’t want his preparations for Brazil disrupted by any transfer business.
Hodgson said: “England is England and their clubs and club futures are exactly that – and we’re not going to combine the two things. I’m not having agents come in to our training camp and I’m not having players leaving the camp to speak to clubs or agents.”
That means deals might have to wait to be completed until England’s World Cup campaign is over.
Meanwhile, Manchester City are looking to pounce on Liverpool for two of their best academy coaches.
Steve Torpey and Darren Hughes look after youngsters at Anfield from the ages of eight and upwards and have earned a strong reputation.
But they are understood to have grown settled with various changes in the running of the Kirkby-based academy and City want them to bring through their youngsters instead City, not satisfied with buying some of the world’s best players for their first team, are looking to bring in the best young players too.
They see Torpey, who played for Port Vale and FC United, as an ideal figure and Hughes works alongside him.
City took Rodolfo Borrell from Liverpool’s academy to become their global technical director.
Written by Steve Milne
