Henderson sits out training as Reds prepare for Carabao Cup trip to Lincoln City
Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson appears to have missed training with The Reds on Tuesday according to reports.
As per Sky Sports News this morning, Henderson sat out first-team training while new boys Thiago and Diogo Jota both took part ahead of Thursday night's trip to League One side Lincoln City.
Henderson put in a great first half in the win over Chelsea on Sunday but came off at half-time to be replaced by debutant Thiago Alcântara. Yes, it's hard to …
Injury update on Liverpool's duo of centre-backs
Jürgen Klopp gave a brief injury update regarding Joe Gomez and Joël Matip after Liverpool's win at Chelsea.
The Reds won 2-0 at Stamford Bridge on Sunday in a game where Fabinho had to step in as centre-half to play alongside Virgil van Dijk. Thankfully, Fabinho could be relied on as per usual, putting in a man-of-the-match performance for Klopp's side.
Gomez started Liverpool's first Premier League game of the season against Leeds but was missing on Sunday after reportedly …
Chelsea 0-2 Liverpool: Key stats from an imposing victory
Liverpool capped off a glorious weekend with a commanding triumph against potential title rivals Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, maintaining their 100% start to the season.
Here are some of the standout facts and figures from a key early win against Frank Lampard's 10 men.
Outstanding Fabinho unruffled at centre-half
Back in February 2019, Virgil van Dijk's suspension and Joe Gomez's injury forced Fabinho to slot-in as a centre-half when Bayern Munich visited Anfield. He was up against Robert Lewandowski and, …
Liverpool News - Weekend Summary
After a busy few days for the club, let's take a look at all the latest Liverpool FC news as The Reds made it six points from six at Chelsea on Sunday.
Jota signed
Liverpool confirmed the signing of Portugal international Diogo Jota on Saturday afternoon. The former Wolves forward left Molineux after three seasons at the club. Jota scored 16 goals in 67 Premier League appearances for Nuno Espirito Santo's team since helping them to promotion from the Championship.
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Predicting Liverpool’s Thiago Inspired Marketing Boom
This week has seen Michael Edwards once again stun everyone to secure the near-simultaneous signings of Diogo Jota and Thiago Alcantara. Just as Everton were about to use James Rodriguez to lift the trophy for most new Instagram followers, Liverpool’s recruitment team pulled it out the bag with a player the BBC quite rightly describe as an ‘absolute superstar’. As much as we can all laugh at the Instagram trophy, signing players of this calibre does raise the interesting and exciting …
Why Liverpool signed Diogo Jota
Last year, I spent about a week working on a project for work. With Liverpool in need of a fourth attacker, I took it upon myself to draw up a list of potential candidates. But before that, the challenge was to profile Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah before they moved to Anfield in order to spot trends. The idea was then to use those as a base to find players who might be on Michael Edwards’ list.
Liverpool forwards need …
Thiago Signing Indicates Lijnders’ Growing Influence
Finally, after an interminable series of "updates" on Thiago Alcantara's future, Liverpool have agreed a fee of £27,000,000 with FC Bayern for the Spanish international.
Precisely no one will miss the daily reports telling us -- with the wording changed, to disguise the fact there was nothing new being said, after consulting a thesaurus -- that the Reds wanted the Spaniard and he was keen to only join Liverpool but the transfer powers that be at Anfield didn't want to …
Will this be Liverpool's starting eleven to face Chelsea on Sunday?
Liverpool travel to London this weekend as they prepare to face Chelsea in the Premier League. We've had a look at what starting lineup Jürgen Klopp might go with.
The Reds began their season with a 4-3 home win over newly-promoted Leeds United last Saturday evening. It was an end-to-end clash at Anfield with Mohamed Salah (x3) and Virgil van Dijk scoring Liverpool's goals. As the score would suggest, however, Liverpool's defence didn't perform to a great standard on the …
Thiago to Liverpool - it's happening!
Liverpool finally look like they're going to secure the signature of FC Bayern's world-class midfielder Thiago Alcântara after one of the most drawn-out transfer sagas in recent years.
This morning, news reports broke claiming that the deal was just about completed with Liverpool agreeing to pay the €30 million price-tag FC Bayern had put on Thiago.
The Reds had hoped to bring the figure down seeing as Thiago was entering the final year of his contract with the Bundesliga champions. …
Liverpool news - Midweek roundup
With Liverpool's domestic season back underway since last weekend, let's take a quick look at all the news regarding our club so far this week.
Goalkeeper to sign
As reported by us yesterday, Liverpool expect to complete the signing of young Brazilian goalkeeper Marcelo Pitaluga this week. The Fluminense stopper is due on Merseyside to complete his medical in the coming days. He will then join up with Barry Lewtas' Liverpool U23s squad. Pitaluga comes highly recommended by Liverpool's Brazil …