The Liverpool Gazette
Market17 Aug 2026
Arsenal 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
A move Jemiah Umolu 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. Jemiah Umolu 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Dominik Szoboszlai gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market17 Aug 2026
Rotherham United join the queue for Jayden Danns
Add another name to the list: Rotherham United have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jayden Danns. The answer from Liverpool has not changed — yet.
Market17 Aug 2026
Matthew Miller steps up from the Liverpool academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matthew Miller 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Liverpool promote Alexander Johnson from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alexander Johnson 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.
In brief
- Boardroom The ground is getting bigger
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Jemiah Umolu