The Liverpool Gazette
Market17 Aug 2026
Mamadou Sangaré is a Liverpool player
The fee is $25.0M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Brentford drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Mamadou Sangaré would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Mamadou Sangaré is living that version at Liverpool, and it tends to show in the first month.
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
Liverpool promote Steven Matthews from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Steven Matthews 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Liverpool promote Joseph Kelly from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Joseph Kelly 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Liam Cunningham steps up from the Liverpool academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Liam Cunningham has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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 Everybody has an opinion about Mamadou Sangaré