Author: Soccerhuz
Jürgen Klopp saluted the relentless output of Mohamed Salah after another record-breaking goal for the Liverpool No.11 on Thursday night. Salah came off the bench in the second half of the Europa League tie with Toulouse and found the net at the Kop end in stoppage time to wrap up a 5-1 win. The strike moved the Egyptian up to 43 goals in major European competitions for the Reds – the most of any player for an English club. It was a ninth goal of 2023-24 in all competitions for Salah, who is now just five away from 200 in…
Kostas Tsimikas wants to harness the power he feels at Anfield when Nottingham Forest visit in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon. The Reds have gathered 20 points from their opening nine fixtures in the top-flight campaign, including victories in all four home games. Jürgen Klopp’s squad will be back in L4 for a third Anfield outing in eight days in all competitions, looking to follow up successes against Everton in the Merseyside derby and Toulouse in the Europa League since returning from the international break. Tsimikas is hopeful the Reds can maintain that momentum when Steve Cooper’s Forest line…
Mohamed Salah will achieve a rare feat in Liverpool history if he scores against Nottingham Forest on Sunday afternoon. The No.11 has netted in all of the Reds’ four home league games so far in 2023-24, against AFC Bournemouth, Aston Villa, West Ham United and most recently Everton. If Salah can hit the target this weekend, he will become only the third man in the club’s history to score in each of the opening five home league matches of a season. The first was Harry Chambers in 1922 and it would be 65 years before his achievement was emulated –…
Virgil van Dijk is delighted with just how quickly Liverpool’s summer arrivals have found their feet at the club. Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai, Wataru Endo and Ryan Gravenberch have all made important contributions to the Reds’ encouraging start in the 2023-24 season. Examples were served in Thursday’s Europa League win over Toulouse as Endo opened his scoring account and Gravenberch also netted as part of his Player of the Match display. Assessing the quartet in the matchday programme for Sunday’s meeting with Nottingham Forest, Van Dijk writes: “One of the most pleasing things about the season so far is…
You don’t have to look far to find a Liverpool connection at Nottingham Forest these days. There’s Steve Cooper, the manager who guided the club back to the Premier League after a 23-year absence in 2022, and who spent five years as a coach in the Reds’ Academy. There’s Neco Williams, who joined Liverpool at the age of six and left for Forest in 2022 having made 33 senior appearances. There’s Divock Origi, of course. The ultimate Anfield cult hero. The man whose love of the big occasion helped produce some of the most memorable moments, and memorable nights, in…
According to Ben Jacobs via GIVEMESPORT, Liverpool are keen on having Jamal Musiala in their ranks. The Merseyside club are keeping a close eye on the 20-year-old’s situation at Bayern Munich and they would surely push for his services if there is a possible opportunity. However, Jacobs feels Jurgen Klopp’s team might struggle with the finances that will be needed to land the German international at the club. Given the amount of interest in him and the kind of potential the 20-year-old has, the Merseyside club will have to break the bank to land him at the club. But, that…
When Rafa Benitez needed to sell Michael Owen within weeks of arriving at Anfield it left a sizeable void that needed filling. Enter one Milan Baros, signed by Liverpool two years earlier as an unknown quantity, the Czech star would produce his best goalscoring season in a Reds shirt en route to winning the Champions League. He remains one of only four Czech men to win the competition and, nearly two decades on from that iconic night in Istanbul, he’s still playing having turned 42 on Saturday. Baros is still turning out for amateur side FK Vigantice in his homeland…
Lille defender Leny Yoro continues to be linked with a move to the Premier League. The 17-year-old is regarded as one of the finest young talents in Ligue 1 right now and he has been linked with a number of European heavyweights in recent weeks. A report from Fichajes claims that Manchester United and Liverpool are keen on the player as well. Premier League rivals Chelsea were already keen on the player and they will now face competition from the two clubs. Meanwhile, Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid are monitoring the 17-year-old defender as well. Yoro is a prodigious talent…
Nottingham Forest striker Taiwo Awoniyi has claimed that he’s ‘dreamed’ of playing for Liverpool at Anfield. Awoniyi has been a great player so far for Forest, scoring 13 Premier League goals since signing for £17m in 2022. Had things been different, the Nigerian could have been hitting the net for Liverpool. Having joining the Reds in 2015, work permit issues prevented him from ever playing for the club. Now, with Forest due at Anfield tomorrow, Awoniyi has been talking to liverpoolfc.com about his past dreams of playing for Liverpool. “It’s been a long journey!” says the 26-year-old, of his rise to being a…
Jurgen Klopp has credited Darwin Nunez with playing a part in the reshaping of Mo Salah as a footballer. The Uruguayan international (on a reported £140,000-a-week, according to Capology) has, in the German’s words, ‘changed Mo’s position definitely’, encouraging the creative reinvention of the Egyptian King of late. “The young Mo was a super fast player. From the first day he had to do different things, he adapted extremely well, but the playmaker in that role was probably Bobby [Firmino] setting things up,” the ex-Borussia Dortmund head coach spoke to reporters, as relayed by BBC Sport. “You don’t need two players…