The Liverpool Gazette
Squad23 Jul 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alisson
47 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.
Squad23 Jul 2035
Tempers go at Liverpool
Hugo Ekitiké 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.
Market23 Jul 2035
Lewis Koumas 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.
Squad23 Jul 2035
Ryan Gravenberch 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.
Market23 Jul 2035
Liverpool say no — this time
The offer from Swindon Town for Paul Atkinson 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.
Squad23 Jul 2035
Real improvement from Edward Mitchell at Liverpool
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Edward Mitchell is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
In brief
- Market Eyes on Nicholas Michalski again
- Market Barrow AFC expected to open talks for Edward Mitchell