Jack Smith

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Liverpool
29 Nov 2035
Thursday
Process

Marked for Jack Smith

468 Edition

The Liverpool Gazette

16 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alisson

54 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Liverpool lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Talles Magno 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 The request is on a desk at Liverpool, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Miloš Kerkez 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.

Market

Liverpool turn down Notts County for Nicholas Michalski

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Words at Liverpool training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryan Gravenberch 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jack Smith

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jack Smith will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Liverpool the goodbyes have quietly begun.

In brief

Back issues
464 Edition

The Liverpool Gazette

18 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Alisson raises the bar for Liverpool

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Liverpool heard it as anything else.

Squad

Miloš Kerkez 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.

Market

Liverpool say no — this time

The offer from Bristol Rovers for Federico Brancolini 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.

Market

Jack Smith has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Liverpool they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Eyes on Jack Phillips again

The phone has started ringing about Jack Phillips again, and this time the name on the line is Exeter City. Liverpool are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Trey Nyoni falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

418 Edition

The Liverpool Gazette

31 Jul 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Bart Verbruggen damages knee ligaments — 82 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 82 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Liverpool

Miloš Kerkez 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.

Market

Bendegúz Kovács has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Liverpool they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Words at Liverpool training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ben Nelson 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.

Market

Barrow AFC watching Jack Smith

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Liverpool have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

When it matters, Alexander Isak 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