The Liverpool Gazette
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Giorgi Mamardashvili goes
Tottenham paid $59.0M and Liverpool took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market17 Aug 2026
Lazio 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Too dear: Liverpool walk away from Stefanos Tzimas
$17.2M was the most the club would pay and Brighton 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.
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
Words at Liverpool training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alisson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Liverpool rebuffed over Bukayo Saka
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Arsenal have kept their man, and Liverpool go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Jonathan Bailey joins the Liverpool first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jonathan Bailey is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
Liverpool promote Jack Murray from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jack Murray 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
- Looking ahead All roads lead to Everton
- Boardroom Liverpool are making the ground bigger
- The dugout Benjamin Howard knocks on the manager’s door