The Liverpool Gazette
Squad17 Aug 2026
Virgil van Dijk breaks a bone — 129 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 129 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market17 Aug 2026
Kevin Januzaj arrives at Liverpool in a $51.2M statement of intent
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Liverpool have paid $51.2M for Kevin Januzaj, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Kevin Januzaj 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. Kevin Januzaj is living that version at Liverpool, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market17 Aug 2026
Liverpool turn down West Ham United for Curtis Jones
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market17 Aug 2026
Liverpool sign Daniel Iversen for $6.0M
The paperwork is done: Daniel Iversen joins from Preston in a deal worth $6.0M. Now comes the harder part.
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
Nicholas Evans steps up from the Liverpool academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nicholas Evans 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.
In brief
- Boardroom The ground is getting bigger
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Daniel Iversen
- Boardroom The Liverpool board spend on the team