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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 […]
For more than a decade now, Jesse Marsch has been considered the most talented and promising American coach of his generation. For a country aspiring to compete amongst the heavyweights of the game, the 52-year-old’s career has been tracked as any rising star player’s might, and expectations have been high for him to help raise […]
Nobody expected Virgil van Dijk to become the best centre-back of his generation and one of the all time greats of the Premier League. Late into his teens, the son of a Dutch father who divorced his Surinamese mother before abandoning Van Dijk and his two siblings at 11 years of age worked as a […]
All the way back in the pre-history of January of this year, with Liverpool struggling through a defensive injury crisis that was limiting head coach Arne Slot’s options at both centre half and right back, the Reds were linked with a move for on-loan defender Lutsharel Geertruida. Slot had coached Geertruida at Feyenoord before the […]
As the 2025-26 season wound down, Liverpool began to be heavily linked with 16year-old Hertha Berlin midfielder Kennet Eichhorn. They weren’t alone, though, with everyone from Borussia Dortmund to Manchester City also said to be ready and willing to trigger his €10M release clause as sign him. For a time, Liverpool were even presented as […]
On his “Here We Go” podcast, Fabrizio Romano provided an update on the battle between Liverpool FC and Paris Saint-Germain for RB Leipzig’s 19-year-old winger Yan Diomande. “Diomande is probably one of the most exciting and electrifying wingers on the market.” “Now, it’s difficult to find players who can be young, talented [good in] one-v-one, […]
Liverpool have eight first team players at the World Cup this summer with Alisson Becker representing Brazil, Florian Wirtz with Germany, Alexis Mac Allister with Argentina, Endo representing Japan, Alexander Isak lining up for Sweden, and Virgil van Dijk, Ryan Gravenberch, and Cody Gakpo all key to the Netherlands’ hopes. They will also have some […]
Even without sales, Liverpool face a massive task in the summer transfer window needing to replace Mohamed Salah, Andy Robertson, and Ibrahima Konaté as well as having to fill additional holes at right back and forward due to long-term injury ahead of the 2026-27 season. For a side that looked both unbalanced and lacking in […]
On Saturday, 17-year-old Rio Ngumoha made his England senior debut, coming on as part of a fully changed second half eleven for the Three Lions’ World Cup warm-up friendly against New Zealand. It was a 45 minutes that allowed the youngster to show his flair and promise, even if there wasn’t much end product. Even […]
If you squint at things in just the right way, there’s a case that Liverpool’s struggles in 2025-26 at least in part point to the value of Darwin Nuñez, with the Reds and in particular winger Mohamed Salah missing having any kind of a hard-grafting presence leading the line and the rest of the attack […]
Ibrahima Konate recently departed Liverpool after both his team and the club were unable to come to terms on a new contract and his current contract was allowed to expire. Konate is now a free agent, most likely headed to Real Madrid instead. That in and of itself is a blemish on the club, because […]
This post started as a lengthy reply to the many comments from yesterday’s article about Federico Chiesa possibly getting a fresh start under new Liverpool manager Andoni Iraola. Somewhere around the two hundred word mark, I remembered that I’m actually a writer here in TLO Towers, and fuck it, I can just write a full […]
Liverpool had a bit of a seismic week: sacking Arne Slot last Saturday and this past Thursday, naming Adoni Iraola as his replacement. Life moves fast but you’d be forgiven if you’ve got a bit of whiplash between all of these happenings. Because Slot had just won the Premier League the year prior in what […]