The Liverpool Gazette
Market17 Aug 2026
Crystal Palace come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Liverpool did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ethan Pinnock gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ethan Pinnock has just signed for Liverpool, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Liverpool
Virgil van Dijk was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Alisson falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Liverpool
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Matthew Johnson joins the Liverpool first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matthew Johnson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Thomas Walker joins the Liverpool first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Thomas Walker is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
Liverpool promote Nicholas Foster from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nicholas Foster has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The ground is getting bigger
The plans are signed off at a capacity of 84083. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.
In brief
- Squad Finn Inglethorpe signs a new deal
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Ethan Pinnock