The Liverpool Gazette
Match10 Mar 2035
Manchester United end the Liverpool run at 36
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 36 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Match10 Mar 2035
Derby day misery for Liverpool
Losing 0‑2 is one thing; losing to Manchester United in a derby is a wound that takes months to close.
Match12 Mar 2035
Liverpool up to position 2
72 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings12 Mar 2035
Yankuba Minteh runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market12 Mar 2035
Only the photograph left for Nobel Mendy
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nobel Mendy will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Liverpool the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market12 Mar 2035
Bazoumana Touré 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 The request is on a desk at Liverpool, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market12 Mar 2035
Miloš Kerkez 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.
Squad12 Mar 2035
Tempers go at Liverpool
Fermín 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.
The dugout12 Mar 2035
Jonathan Marshall says Liverpool went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
In brief
- Squad Yankuba Minteh is carrying Liverpool
- The dugout No hiding place for Alisson
- The dugout A promise honoured for Estêvão