News from England claims that Liverpool is interested in signing promising youngster Khephren Thuram in the summer. Kheohren Thuram is the son of Legendary French defender Lillian Thuram and plays for French side AS Monaco.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said that his team does not need to focus on Manchester City and rather concentrate on their own game. He said that Manchester City is having a great season and that they are winning games convincingly but this does not mean that they should be afraid.
Jurgen Klopp was pretty satisfied with his team’s work in the Premiership this weekend as they stream-rolled over Watford to further strengthen their position at no. 2 in the standings. The Reds are just a couple of points behind the table leaders Manchester City who have got 35 points in 13 matches.
Liverpool travels to North London unbeaten in the Premier League, as they did 10 years ago. Eight wins from the opening 10 games 26 points from 30. This is a very first start to a Premier League season and a test trip to North London on the horizon, unless we do not talk about Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool.
The 29th goal in 29 appearances by Mohamed Salah, at Anfield helped them achieve a 1-0 win against Brighton as the Reds were unsuccessful to reach the levels. Liverpool is on the top position of the league and also has a 100 percent record for not conceding a goal. However Jurgen Klopp, the Liverpool manager says that the team has a lot more to do. Liverpool achieved 9 points post playing 3 games and there is nothing negative as per Klopp. They didn’t concede a goal and there is nothing so negative and moreover the team knows they have a lot more to do to get to the top.
La Liga star Fernando Torres is set to exit Atletico Madrid at the end of the season. The 34-year old announced that he would leave his boyhood club this summer, amid earlier speculations that he was headed to China.
Manager Brendan Rodgers has claimed that he was delighted to take a break after being sacked by Liverpool midway through 2015.
The northern Irishman decided to take the break as it was too draining to be in charge of Liverpool. As one of the top clubs in England, there is a huge amount of attention on Liverpool and it appears to have been one of the primary reasons behind Rodgers drained by the job. At Celtic, Rodgers has had a much easier time after he won the title in relative comfort. The biggest challenge for the manager would be to go further in the Champions League than the group stages of the competition. Celtic are no longer considered as one of the top dogs in European football but Rodgers has done a stellar job to revive the club’s form in Europe. (more…)
Continue reading »Southampton has ruled out any plans or interests of other clubs in purchasing any of their key players, and is affirming that none of their players would leave the club.
Executive director of the south coast club, Les Reed made this revelation recently especially concerning van Dijk who since the turn of the year, has been consistently linked with a move away from the club.
Earlier this month, van Dijk was in the centre of a controversial pursuit by Liverpool. He had met with the manager of the Anfield club side, Jürgen Klopp to hold discussions in lieu a prospective transfer.
This was done without any official approach to Southampton by Liverpool for the services of the player.
Southampton felt aggrieved and consequently took it up filing a complaint to the Premier League. Thus Liverpool was forced to apologize for “any misunderstanding” before withdrawing their interest from the player. (more…)
Continue reading »Jurgen Klopp reckons that the nature of the surface on which yesterday’s game against the Saints was played was not ideal for his team and it’s because of its dryness that his boys failed to make the impact that they could have.
Stressing on the importance of home matches, Klopp said that for any team to have a great season, they have to make sure that they don’t give away too many points to the opposition on their home turf and that was the case with Liverpool in the past. They were quite a force whenever they used to play at Anfield, but, of late, some of the matches have ended with undesirable results. (more…)
Continue reading »Erstwhile Premier League bad boy, Joey Barton who made a surprise return to the league last week announced his second coming at Burnley with a match-winning goal that sparked pandemonium.
Burnley may sit 10th place yet their travails away from home allow for reservations over their continuity in the league to linger. This therefore stressed the significance of Joey Barton’s addition to a wage bill of around £40 million, as comparable as a snowball in the Alps in top flight terms. (more…)
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