The Liverpool Gazette
Squad21 Sep 2026
Virgil van Dijk in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Liverpool this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market21 Sep 2026
Harvey Davies is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Liverpool is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Finn Inglethorpe at Liverpool
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Finn Inglethorpe is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match20 Sep 2026
Liverpool find a way past Aston Villa
Aston Villa made Liverpool work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Dominik Szoboszlai in the eights
A performance of 8.22 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Edward Walker signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Edward Walker and Liverpool agree another 3 years.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Nicholas Richardson has his say
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Nicholas Richardson on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Jeremie Frimpong shuts the door
Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
When it matters, Miloš Kerkez plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Player ratings Alexander Isak runs at them all day
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Federico Chiesa
- Squad Alexander Isak named player of the week