It has been an enormous day in terms of Alexander Isak’s future after he instructed Newcastle he needs to discover a switch, whereas Hugo Ekitike has met his new teammates in Hong Kong.
At the moment’s Major LFC Headline
It has been one growth after one other in terms of Isak after he was overlooked of Newcastle‘s pre-season tour, having instructed Newcastle of his need to go away and discover his switch choices.
Liverpool “have sufficient monetary wiggle room” to signal the 25-year-old, as per the i Paper, who, amongst others, preserve that Newcastle “imagine they’ll preserve him.”
Switch journalist Fabrizio Romano, nonetheless, has burdened that Liverpool “are nonetheless there” and “usually are not giving up” on a deal for Isak, and are able to make a file bid if Newcastle open the door.
He provides Al Hilal are at present not within the image, and that the Liverpool state of affairs “is completely on and concrete” for a deal that may be value over £120 million – what parallel universe are we residing in?!
The Mail‘s Craig Hope, in the meantime, experiences Liverpool are “readying a proper method and, as soon as that occurs, Newcastle may have a call to make.”
It’s value preserving in thoughts that there are lots of items to the puzzle, together with Newcastle needing to discover a substitute earlier than they permit Isak to go away, they received’t need their hand weakened – and Liverpool will pay attention to that.
Hilariously, now we have even had briefs that Man United have ‘dominated out’ a transfer for Isak. We’ll depart that one with you to chuckle over.
At the moment’s Liverpool FC Information
• Liverpool’s house owners have underlined that they wish to ‘behave like one of many greatest golf equipment on this planet’ after profitable the league – we are able to’t watch for the ironic ‘Reds have gotten no cash’ chants!
• Bayern Munich are getting ready one other bid for Luis Diaz, upwards of £65 million, and now there’s a suggestion of together with a sell-on clause to sweeten the deal. It seems like when, not if
• Harvey Elliott has reiterated that whereas he “loves every little thing in regards to the membership,” he “must be egocentric” in terms of whether or not he’ll search for a switch this summer season
• Liverpool are a part of a trial that enables alcohol to be consumed within the stands in any respect girls’s residence video games in 2025/26 – it has been banned within the males’s recreation for 40 years
• Newcastle see Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko in its place if Isak is allowed to go away, which might be along with their makes an attempt to signal Yoane Wissa. Not on the market, eh…(i Paper)
Extra from This Is Anfield
With Hugo Ekitike formally unveiled, Joe Baker has taken a have a look at why Arne Slot wished the Frenchman and what we are able to anticipate from his growth at Anfield:
“The hype round Ekitike is comprehensible. But it could be that Slot, as an excellent man-manager, takes the 23-year-old out of the firing line extra frequently than we’d suppose in his first season, as he adapts to the rigours and pressures of such an intense league and the expectations of being a Liverpool centre ahead.
“To once more take the instance of Gimenez, Slot solely began him in 9 of his first 20 Eredivisie video games. Certainly, it wasn’t till early February that he performed his first full 90 minutes.”
READ: Why Ekitike was wished by Slot – and the way he can be developed
Liverpool prepare in Hong Kong!
Watch Florian Wirtz‘s bag of methods and Ekitike meet his new teammates for the primary time on our YouTube channel right here!
A 28-man squad skilled on Thursday in Hong Kong, with Alexis Mac Allister the one one to sit down out as he continues to get again to full health forward of the brand new season.
Elsewhere within the soccer world immediately
• Aston Villa have instructed Man United that Ollie Watkins is just not on the market at any value this summer season – a second rejection for United from the identical membership, you like to see it (The Telegraph)
• Declan Rice remains to be making a degree to say the “so many accidents” Arsenal had final season, surprise what excuse they’ll give you for 2025/26? (The Athletic)
• Roberto Firmino has traded Saudi Arabia for Qatar, signing for Al Sadd on a two-year deal – he was frozen out at Al Ahli, fairly how is difficult to imagine!
Liverpool FC: On today
5 years in the past to the day, Jordan Henderson was named Soccer Writers’ Affiliation Footballer of the Yr following Liverpool’s title-winning season.
He beat Kevin De Bruyne, Marcus Rashford, Virgil van Dijk and Sadio Mane as the principle contenders for the award.
In the course of the 2019/20 season, he helped lead the Premier League captains’ response to the pandemic and featured 40 occasions in all competitions on his technique to main the membership to their nineteenth topflight title.
Henderson crammed in brilliantly at No. 6 after Fabinho was sidelined, whereas additionally scoring his most objectives in a marketing campaign beneath Jurgen Klopp (4). He grew to become the twelfth Liverpool participant to win the award.
