Aberdeen want a deal worth up to £10m if they are to sell Calvin Ramsay to Liverpool this summer.
The Dons have been locked in talks with the Champions League finalists over the 18-year-old right-back after Liverpool made an initial £4m offer, with £2m in add-ons.
However, it is understood Aberdeen are holding firm and want at least £5m up-front, with £5m in add-ons.
Sky Sports News revealed last week that Ramsay's preferred choice is to join Liverpool, out of a number of interested clubs in England, Germany and Italy.
In January, Aberdeen rejected a bid for the player from Bologna - understood to be an £830,000 loan offer, with an obligation to buy for £3.3m.
Their current record sale is £3m from Nottingham Forest for Scott McKenna. The Dons have also received an extra £1m for the centre-back this summer after Forest were promoted to the Premier League.
Liverpool have identified Ramsay as a long-term right-back rival for England star Trent Alexander-Arnold - a player Ramsay has highlighted as one of his biggest influences.
"As a full-back, watching Trent and his crosses and his technical ability - if I can get to that level then it would be a bonus," he said.
"Andy Robertson at Liverpool and (Kieran) Tierney at Arsenal have been brilliant and they're players I look up to, especially as they are full-backs like me. I feel I could go on to do that as well."
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Speaking during the season, Dons manager Jim Goodwin wasn't surprised by the growing interest in the teenager.
He said: "Prior to January, Calvin was probably one of the best young full-backs in the world to be perfectly honest. That is not an over-exaggeration.
"His stats, his data
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