The Liverpool Gazette
Market17 Aug 2026
Mainz 05 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
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Liverpool sign Mateus Mané, one for the future
Mateus Mané is 18, and Liverpool have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Finn Inglethorpe signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Finn Inglethorpe commits to Liverpool for another 3 years.
Market17 Aug 2026
Campobasso expected to open talks for Freddie Woodman
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Liverpool will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
In brief
- Market Liverpool sign Stephen Wright, one for the future
- Squad Florian Wirtz has company in his position
- Squad Julián Quiñones has seen what the next man earns
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Rio Hammond