It has been an enormous day on the subject 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.
Immediately’s Essential LFC Headline
It has been one growth after one other on the subject of Isak after he was omitted of Newcastle‘s pre-season tour, having instructed Newcastle of his want to depart and discover his switch choices.
Liverpool “have sufficient monetary wiggle room” to signal the 25-year-old, as per the i Paperwho, amongst others, preserve that Newcastle “imagine they will maintain him.”
Switch journalist Fabrizio Romanonevertheless, has burdened that Liverpool “are nonetheless there” and “are usually not giving up” on a deal for Isak, and are able to make a document bid if Newcastle open the door.
He provides Al Hilal are at the moment not within the image, and that the Liverpool scenario “is totally on and concrete” for a deal that will 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 could have a choice to make.”
It’s value retaining in thoughts that there are quite a lot of items to the puzzle, together with Newcastle needing to discover a alternative earlier than they permit Isak to depart, they gained’t need their hand weakened – and Liverpool will pay attention to that.
Hilariously, we now have even had briefs that Man United have ‘dominated out’ a transfer for Isak. We’ll depart that one with you to chuckle over.
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Immediately’s Liverpool FC Information
• Liverpool’s house owners have underlined that they wish to ‘behave like one of many largest golf equipment on this planet’ after profitable the league – we are able to’t look forward to the ironic ‘Reds have gotten no cash’ chants!
• Bayern Munich are making 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 the whole lot in regards to the membership,” he “must be egocentric” on the subject of whether or not he’ll search for a switch this summer time
• Liverpool are a part of a trial that permits alcohol to be consumed within the stands in any respect ladies’s dwelling video games in 2025/26 – it has been banned within the males’s sport for 40 years
• Newcastle see Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko as a substitute if Isak is allowed to depart, 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 count on from his growth at Anfield:
“The hype round Ekitike is comprehensible. But it might be that Slot, as a superb man-manager, takes the 23-year-old out of the firing line extra often than we would 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 will probably be developed
Liverpool practice 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 educated on Thursday in Hong Kong, with Alexis Mac Allister the one one to take a seat out as he continues to get again to full health forward of the brand new season.
Elsewhere within the soccer world at present
• Aston Villa have instructed Man United that Ollie Watkins shouldn’t be on the market at any worth this summer time – 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 provide you with 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 tough to imagine!
Liverpool FC: On this present day
5 years in the past to the day, Jordan Henderson was named Soccer Writers’ Affiliation Footballer of the 12 months 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.
Throughout the 2019/20 season, he helped lead the Premier League captains’ response to the pandemic and featured 40 instances in all competitions on his method to main the membership to their nineteenth topflight title.
Henderson stuffed in brilliantly at No. 6 after Fabinho was sidelined, whereas additionally scoring his most targets in a marketing campaign underneath Jurgen Klopp (4). He grew to become the twelfth Liverpool participant to win the award.
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