The Liverpool Gazette
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$24.0M settles it between the clubs for Fotis Ioannidis
Sporting CP have accepted the money. What Liverpool do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Leonardo Campana
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Liverpool have done the hard part with New England Revolution, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Manchester City tell Liverpool: Jérémy Doku is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Too dear: Liverpool walk away from Chris Rigg
$13.1M was the most the club would pay and Sunderland were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Liverpool say no — this time
The offer from Arsenal for Ryan Gravenberch 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Liverpool
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Michael Moore joins the Liverpool first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michael Moore is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
Liam Wilson steps up from the Liverpool academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Liam Wilson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market17 Aug 2026
Joseph Palmer steps up from the Liverpool academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Joseph Palmer has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.