The Liverpool Gazette
Match22 Aug 2026
Derby delight as Liverpool down Everton
Bragging rights belong to Liverpool for another year after a 3‑1 win over Everton in front of a full house.
Market24 Aug 2026
Jay Spearing 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 The request is on a desk at Liverpool, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Federico Chiesa wins the derby
There are goals, and then there are goals against that particular opponent. The Liverpool support have their bragging rights for a year and they know exactly whose name is on them.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A move Gerrard Buabo would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Gerrard Buabo is living that version at Liverpool, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Virgil van Dijk 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.
Squad24 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Everton blown away early
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Everton tried to reorganise, Liverpool did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Market24 Aug 2026
The Rio Ngumoha conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Rotherham United will make the call about Rio Ngumoha this week. Liverpool have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Alexander Isak has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Liverpool will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- Player ratings Curtis Jones never got going
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Curtis Jones
- Market The Ryan Gravenberch talk will not go away