The Liverpool Gazette
Market17 Nov 2031
Only the photograph left for Dominik Szoboszlai
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Dominik Szoboszlai will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Liverpool the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market17 Nov 2031
João Pedro puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Liverpool, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad17 Nov 2031
Words exchanged at Liverpool
Victor Osimhen and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad17 Nov 2031
Stephen Cunningham out for 22 days
The medical room confirms 22 days on the sidelines for Stephen Cunningham, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout17 Nov 2031
Virgil van Dijk gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout17 Nov 2031
A promise honoured for Joan García
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Liverpool told Joan García something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market17 Nov 2031
No place for Pedro Porro in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Pedro Porro has his answer from Liverpool; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout17 Nov 2031
Dominik Szoboszlai gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Dominik Szoboszlai is on it.
Loan watch17 Nov 2031
Haydn Murray-Holme has seen enough of Norwich City
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Liverpool, and 5 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
- Market The Alexis Mac Allister talk will not go away
- The dugout Dastan Sätpayev knocks on the manager’s door
- Looking ahead Dastan Sätpayev goes back to face Burnley