Liverpool as reality for new Philippe Coutinho clear

 

 

 

Man City will need to address a number of potential fitness concerns prior to their match against Liverpool, but the Reds won’t have to worry about a replica of Philippe Coutinho’s exit.

Most of the time, the international break has gone well for several of Liverpool’s biggest players thus far. Egypt trounced Djibouti 6-0 on Thursday thanks to four goals from Mohamed Salah, who had the finest performance of his career.

Darwin Núñez scored as Uruguay ended world champion Argentina’s 14-game winning streak, while Luis Díaz scored a fantastic double past teammate Alisson to earn Colombia a historic victory over Brazil.

As South American World Cup qualification proceeds, the two will play again on Tuesday night, one against Bolivia and the other against Paraguay.

In Europe, Hungary defeated Montenegro 3-1 thanks to goals from Dominik Szoboszlai twice in a brief period of time.

Hungary’s victory was already assured a spot at Euro 2024. After completing his work for this month’s vacation, Szoboszlai might return to Liverpool.

When the Three Lions play North Macedonia on Monday to wrap off their qualifying campaign, Trent Alexander-Arnold, who earned player of the match on Friday night as England overcame Malta 2-0, might make another appearance.

Meanwhile, team captain Virgil van Dijk helped the Netherlands defeat Ireland 1-0 on Saturday. On Tuesday, he will lead his team against Gibraltar.

In the interim, check out the most current Liverpool.com headlines that you really shouldn’t miss.

Parallel to Philippe Coutinho is Luis Díaz, yet the fact of Liverpool’s transfer is evident
Things are quite different now, even though listening to Luis Díaz’s father talk about his son’s love for Barcelona would make you think of Philippe Coutinho’s departure in 2018.

Luis Manuel Díaz claimed to know “very little” about any possible transfer, but said that the winger is “a faithful Barcelona fan and it would be his dream to go there,” as reported by Win Sports via Sport Witness.

When Coutinho left, Barcelona was obviously a step above the Reds, who were still in the early stages of Jürgen Klopp’s vision. But now that Anfield is clearly established as a player’s destination rather than just a stopover en route to somewhere, it would be, at most, a sideways move.

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Premier League rule change would have seen clubs blocked from related-party loan deals.

Liverpool reportedly voted in favour of temporarily blocking related-party loans.

Shareholders from Premier League clubs met on Tuesday to vote on the motion, with a temporary ban, which, for example, would have prevented Newcastle United signing players on loan from any PIF-owned clubs, put forward as a solution to protect the integrity of the competition whilst a permanent solution was settled upon.

The Premier League was understood to be in favour of implementing the ban. However, it did not receive the required support to implement the temporary ban.

Thirteen clubs voted in favour of blocking loan moves between teams under the same ownership, but such a figure was one short of the two-thirds majority needed for the motion to be passed.

Consequently, the current rules will remain in place for the January transfer window, which still permit such dealings.

At present, there are no restrictions on players securing loans from foreign teams under the same umbrella of ownership as the Premier League club they move to, so long as the deal is kept to fair market value.

The Times’ Martyn Ziegler reported on Tuesday evening that Liverpool were one of the 13 sides to vote in favour of the motion being passed.

He would also claim that Newcastle United, Sheffield United, Man City, Chelsea, Everton, Wolves, and Nottingham Forest were the clubs to vote against the ban.

In Liverpool‘s case Fenway Sports Group do not own any other elite football clubs – only currently having financial interest in other sports such as baseball, golf and ice hockey amongst others – so would not directly be affected by such a ban.