The Liverpool Gazette
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Liverpool bid $58.5M for Amadou Onana
The offer went to Aston Villa this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Lucas Clarke damages knee ligaments — 15 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 15 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Too dear: Liverpool walk away from Vinícius Júnior
$53.9M was the most the club would pay and Real Madrid were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Konstantin Tyukavin is a medical away from Liverpool
The deal with Dinamo Moscow is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $39.6M for Vangelis Pavlidis
Liverpool have gone to Benfica with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market17 Aug 2026
Not going: Wataru Endo stays at Liverpool
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Norwich City had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market17 Aug 2026
Liverpool say no — this time
The offer from Inter for Giorgi Mamardashvili was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Liverpool go back to the board over Amadou Onana
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $67.3M — a club that wants Amadou Onana enough to be asked twice.
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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Jonathan Marshall joins the Liverpool first team
- Market Liverpool promote Robert Jackson from within
- Looking ahead All roads lead to Everton