Conor Bradley

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Process

Marked for Conor Bradley

24 Edition

The Liverpool Gazette

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Liverpool pay Atalanta $41.2M for a proper upgrade

Atalanta did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $41.2M for Éderson, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Julio Enciso

Liverpool asked and Ipswich Town said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Terms done: Conor Bradley is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Preston waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Liverpool is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Liverpool turn down Manchester City for Dominik Szoboszlai

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

Player ratings

Both of them Alexander Isak's — 9.63

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.63, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Alexis Mac Allister asks to leave Liverpool

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Éderson gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Éderson has just signed for Liverpool, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Alisson stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

No end in sight to Liverpool's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Liverpool has to find a result from somewhere.

In brief

Back issues
19 Edition

The Liverpool Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Liverpool refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 40 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Loan watch

Freddie Woodman counts the days

“I watch every Liverpool game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Norwich City runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The terraces

Liverpool supporters have found a favourite in Miloš Kerkez

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Miloš Kerkez has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Liverpool find a way past Sunderland

Sunderland made Liverpool work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Alexander Isak

8 goals and a season average of 7.34 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Alexis Mac Allister at his very best

Marked 8.29. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Liverpool.

Player ratings

One of those days for Dominik Szoboszlai

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.14, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Bradley Barcola in the eights

A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

100 appearances for Conor Bradley

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

In brief

16 Edition

The Liverpool Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

The view from the top for Liverpool

34 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.

Match

11 unbeaten for Liverpool

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Liverpool did not have in the autumn.

Squad

International break empties Liverpool

11 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.

The terraces

Liverpool supporters have found a favourite in Conor Bradley

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Conor Bradley has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Liverpool get the job done against Brentford

A 1‑0 win over Brentford, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Cody Gakpo 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.

Looking ahead

Liverpool and Arsenal meet at the summit

The fixture the rest of the division is looking forward to more than either of the sides in it. Both know a win changes the season and a defeat does not end it, which is what makes it hard to play.

Player ratings

Florian Wirtz was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.13. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Conor Bradley

Marked 8.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief