Category "Players"

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If, or when, Liverpool win the Premier League title in 2024/25, it’s rather cool that Jurgen Klopp will be invited along to join the celebrations.

You may recall when the Reds last won the EPL trophy back in 2019/20. The pandemic had unfolded and so the season ended behind closed doors, meaning that no Liverpool fans were on the premises when their heroes secured the title.

And, of course, the traditional trophy parade was also prohibited.

So it’s a lovely touch for Klopp to be welcomed back; even if he’ll keep his distance from the players, you suspect, given that we’re now in the Arne Slot era.

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Much can change in a short space of time, so by the time you’re reading this the landscape may have altered once more, but it’s possible that in the summer of 2025, three of the greatest players ever to pull on the red shirt could leave Liverpool on a free.

Reports suggest that Trent Alexander-Arnold will finally make his long-rumoured move to Real Madrid at the end of the 2024/25 season. The marauding right back has been linked with a switch to the Bernabeu for a number of years, and with his Liverpool contract coming to an end on June 30, it seems now is the time that TAA will head to Spain.

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The number 66 will forever be indelibly ingrained in the fabric of English football: 1966 being the year that England won their first – and, so far, only – World Cup.

It would be fair to assume that a commemoration of that golden tournament would be the reason that Trent Alexander Arnold wears the number 66 squad number on the back of his shirt at Liverpool.

But you’d be wrong. In fact, the reason for TAA’s digits are almost wholly random.

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There are plenty of milestones and records of which Mo Salah is the sole owner at Liverpool FC, and he’s now taken up membership of another club in which he’s the only member.

The Egyptian scored his 50th European goal for Liverpool in the 2-1 Champions League win over Lille.

He admitted that although he ‘wasn’t focused’ on the milestone before the game, he was ‘very proud’ of his achievement. “Hopefully [it’s] not the last one!” he joked, in a way that would have been funny but for his ongoing contract issues.

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Here’s some bad news for fans of every football club other than Liverpool: Mo Salah is getting better with age.

Even after celebrating his 32nd birthday, Salah continues to reach new heights: as of November, he was the first player in Europe’s ‘big five’ leagues to record ten goals and ten assists in all competitions during the 2024/25 season.

The Egyptian has now scored more Premier League goals than the legendary Robbie Fowler, and by the end of the campaign he could have even climbed above Frank Lampard and Thierry Henry in the all-time EPL goalscorers list; the likes of Sergio Aguero and Andy Cole would then be in his crosshairs.

Not bad for a guy who, aside from a handful of appearances for Chelsea, didn’t make his Premier League debut until he had turned 25!

From his goals and assists to his growing trophy cabinet, Salah continues to ascend towards the ranks of Liverpool’s all-time greats.

But can he yet be considered the best player in the club’s history?

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It was with great sadness that the passing of Ron Yeats was reported in September.

The Scotsman, who made more than 350 appearances for Liverpool and many of them as captain, had been battling Alzheimer’s disease. He was 86.

A player described as a ‘colossus’ and a ‘man mountain’ by no less a judge than Bill Shankly, the 6ft 2in centre back combined a love of the physical side of the game with an ability with the ball at his feet – just some of the reasons why he was a mainstay in the Reds defence for more than a decade.

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It’s generally accepted that if you have a personal allegiance to a football club, you don’t then go and get involved with their bitter rivals in either a playing or coaching capacity.

But, occasionally, those rules go out of the window, with the fierce rivalry between Liverpool and Everton put to the test this summer.

John Heitinga, the Dutch defender turned coach, is the latest to cross the Merseyside divide. He played 140 times for the Toffees, and after hanging up his boots has forged a successful career as a backroom staff member – his stint with West Ham coming to an end when David Moyes was sacked at the end of the season.

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Has any English club provided more than three captains for a single international tournament?

The closest possible rival would be Chelsea in 2007/08, who at the time had seven international skippers in the midst – however, only two of them (Michael Ballack and Petr Cech) actually played at EURO 2008 after England, captained by John Terry, famously failed to qualify.

There was a time when Real Madrid had Cristiano Ronaldo, Luka Modric, Gareth Bale and Sergio Ramos on their books, and each captained their respective countries at one point or another.

But Liverpool’s current crop surely goes close to being the ‘most captained’ at a single international tournament, with a trio of Reds men taking the helm at EURO 2024. Virgil van Dijk is the long-term leader of the Netherlands, while Andy Robertson has taken the armband for Scotland.

They were joined in the leadership stakes by Dominik Szoboszlai, who was tasked with leading Hungary into battle with Germany.

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Four of Liverpool’s most favourite sons, The Beatles, wrote and recorded a famous song about revolution back in 1968.

Fast forward the best part of 60 years and there’s very much revolution in the air at Liverpool FC, too.

Jurgen Klopp will depart the club, leaving an almighty void to be filled. One thing that the Reds hierarchy seems very keen to do is present the new head coach, whoever that may be, with a young, hungry and progressive squad to work with.

To that end, Michael Edwards – the club’s CEO – has managed to persuade Richard Hughes to leave his beloved Bournemouth and take up the position of sporting director at Anfield.

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