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Liverpool headed into the summer transfer window knowing they had plenty of work to do, especially in attack where the departure of legend Mohamed Salah, last summer’s failure to properly replace Luis Diaz, and an injury to Hugo Ekitike likely to keep the striker out until next year had them looking mighty thin. Today, it […]
On Monday, Uruguayan journalists began to talk up a return to Liverpool for Darwin Nuñez, with the 26-year-old striker having agreed a contract termination with Al Hilal just a year after signing with the Saudi side in a £46M deal and seeking a return to Europe. While Nuñez’ time on Merseyside didn’t go quite to […]
Liverpool midfielder Curtis Jones has just a year left to run on his contract, and the 25-year-old resistant to efforts to negotiate an extension there has been a widespread belief that the boyhood Red would depart the club this summer going back for some time now. The arrival of Andoni Iraola as the new head […]
Liverpool FC defender Carter Pinnington is set for a permanent transfer to West Bromwich Albion, according to Academy-focused journalist Lewis Bower. The 19-year-old spent 12 years in the Liverpool Academy set-up, playing as early as U7. According to Bower, the centre-back had the opportunity to extend his contract at the club but opted to move […]
When Liverpool striker Hugo Ekitike suffered a ruptured Achilles against Paris Saint-Germain on April 14th, a lengthy layoff seemed certain. While no longer considered a certain career ending injury, a ruptured Achilles can be a bigger challenge to overcome than even a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Initial talk had Ekitike likely to be out not […]
While Federico Chiesa has shown flashes of the superstar player he was in the early years of his career before injuries got in the way, the now 28-year-old Italian has struggled for both fitness and minutes in two seasons at Liverpool and most believed he was certain to depart the club in the summer. Rumours […]
Mohamed Salah led Egypt out in what is highly likely to be his last World Cup, and the winger put in a confident captain’s performance. Though Egypt will be disappointed to have conceded an own goal to allow Belgium to equalize midway through the second half, Salah can be pleased with his team’s performance. The […]
Late last week, just before World Cup 2026 kicked off, we had the chance to ask readers of The Liverpool Offside to make their predictions for which nation they thought would win this summer’s tournament as well as which player would win the Golden Ball as top scorer. Today, we have the answers to those […]
Last summer, Uruguayan striker and agent of chaos Darwin Nuñez departed Liverpool and joined Al Hilal in the Saudi Pro League in a deal that saw the Reds paid £45M up front for a highly talented but inconsistent attacker who appeared not to have a future at the club under head coach Arne Slot. That […]
Liverpool’s top need in the summer transfer window is on the wing, with last summer’s failures by sporting director Richard Hughes to properly replace Luis Diaz following his sale having now been compounded by the departure of legend Mohamed Salah this summer. Liverpool’s top target in the summer transfer window is Yan Diomande, with RB […]
The World Cup is finally in full swing, with 8 current Liverpool players and a host of former players all spread across North America to represent their home nations on football’s biggest stage (pitch?). Saturday saw Group C in action, with Brazil playing Morocco earlier in the day before Haiti and Scotland clashed later in […]
Today, Virgil van Dijk will captain the Netherlands in their first match of the 2026 World Cup against Japan, with the Dutch favourites to top Group F and for many one of the overall World Cup favourites. Whatever happens over the next five weeks, though, there was a feeling that at 34 years of age—and […]
With Mohamed Salah having left the club, whispers about a potential Cody Gakpo sale, and striker Hugo Ekitike likely out until the new year due to injury, Liverpool could conceivably enter the 2026-27 season with just young winger Rio Ngumoha and striker Alexander Isak as recognized forward options. To say the club desperately need a […]
Here in Southern California, early-to-mid June is probably the time of year where everything looks like what everyone else thinks Southern California looks like. I mean, yes, we don’t get “seasons” in the way lots of other places do. But I guess this time of year is maybe the most prominent in terms of the […]
Over the past 24 hours, speculative rumours emerged suggesting Cody Gakpo could be seeking to leave Liverpool this summer after a disappointing 2025-26 season where his inconsistent performances led to him being seen by some as one of the key reasons for those disappointing results. That singling out was never entirely fair on Gakpo, who […]
One of the hallmarks of Liverpool’s unfortunate last season was the lack of Alisson Becker guarding the goal. Liverpool fans saw more of Giorgi Mamardashvili and Freddie Woodman than they had hoped to while Alisson was out with injuries. Illness and then a hamstring injury made the Brazilian goalkeeper miss several months. In the aftermath of […]
“Do you think it was worth 6,500 deaths so you could enjoy some footy?” This is the question I asked one of my in-laws four years ago, following the last World Cup, when I had finally reached an appropriate—or perhaps inappropriate—level of inebriation at a family Christmas lunch. The relative in question hadn’t just watched […]
Speaking to the Liverpool Echo, former Liverpool and Real Madrid player Michael Owen said his feeling is that the former Liverpool boss was let go due to dissatisfaction within the Anfield ranks: “Towards the end of the season you could feel the fans’ unrest, and I was initially believing that Liverpool would give Slot more time and […]
With a new head coach incoming, Liverpool have today announced departures in the coaching staff ahead of Andoni Iraola’s first season at the club. Sipke Hulshoff, Ruben Peeters and Giovanni van Bronckhorst have left the Liverpool coaching staff, with Hulshoff and Peeters having joined with Arne Slot in 2024 and coached the Reds to their […]
In England’s final World Cup warm-up game, a behind-closed-doors friendly with Miami FC, Liverpool FC’s Rio Ngumoha reportedly scored a breathtaking strike from distance. The Liverpool attacker was one of five supplementary England players taken to the pre-tournament camp in Florida, and has been stealing headlines from the senior squad. Most notably, Rio won the Man of […]
Following a setback recovering from a broken foot suffered in February, Liverpool midfielder and Japan captain Wataru Endo was forced to withdraw from the national team on the day World Cup 2026 kicked off. Unfortunately, it’s a setback that doesn’t mean Endo will just miss this summer’s tournament. It means that he has played his […]
In February, Liverpool midfielder Wataru Endo underwent surgery for a broken left foot, with Japan’s captain spending most of the latter stages of the 2025-26 season sidelined and training on his own before slowly being reintegrated into team training towards the end of the campaign. However, with the player appearing to be at least close […]
With much of the footballing world waiting for the World Cup to kick off today, club news and transfer rumours have largely gone quiet. There is one piece of news to report on the Liverpool front, though, with the club taking the rare step of announcing that prospect Prince Cissé has signed his first senior […]
Things are quiet on the Liverpool FC transfer front as the preparations for the World Cup begin their final lap. However, it is transfer rumour season, so even at its quietest, something’s going on. According to Fabrizio Romano, Alexis Mac Allister is being monitored by several clubs. Alexis has been linked to Real Madrid on […]
With World Cup 2026 kicking off on Thursday, we’ve got the chance here at The Liverpool Offside to join in with some of the other sites around the network to cast our votes and predict who we think will win it all this summer and which player we think will end up with the Golden […]